{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-08-02","ends":"2026-08-02","when_text":"2 August 2026","what":"Most of the EU AI Act starts to apply","where":"European Union, all member states","note":"The remainder of the Act takes effect apart from one article, and every member state must by this date have at least one national AI regulatory sandbox operating.","url":"https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/implementation-timeline/","source":"artificialintelligenceact.eu","door":false,"keywords":["europe","regulator","ai-law","standards"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-08-31","ends":"2026-08-31","when_text":"August 2026, exact date not yet set","what":"Australian national cabinet takes up mandatory data centre standards","where":"Australia","note":"The Prime Minister said on 15 July he would seek agreement from premiers and chief ministers for mandatory standards covering power supply, connection costs and water efficiency, with legislation to follow early next year.","url":"https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2026/07/15/pm-standards-ai-data-centres","source":"thenewdaily.com.au","door":false,"keywords":["pacific","national-government","data-centres","standards","water","energy","grid"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-08-30","ends":"2026-09-04","when_text":"30 August to 4 September 2026","what":"55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting","where":"Palau","note":"Palau hosts for the first time since 2014, with eighteen member states meeting under the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent; Forum ICT ministers put artificial intelligence on the regional agenda in July.","url":"https://www.theprif.org/event/regional-event/2026-08-30/55th-pacific-islands-forum-leaders-meeting","source":"theprif.org","door":false,"keywords":["pacific","regional-bloc","ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-09-14","ends":"2026-09-17","when_text":"14 to 17 September 2026","what":"4th UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI","where":"Riyadh, Saudi Arabia","note":"Co-hosted by UNESCO and Saudi Arabia under the theme of transforming global cooperation for ethical AI governance; UNESCO says registration details are still to come.","url":"https://www.unesco.org/en/forum-ethics-ai","source":"unesco.org","door":false,"keywords":["middle-east","un","global","guidelines","alignment"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-12-14","ends":"2026-12-18","when_text":"14 to 18 December 2026","what":"21st Internet Governance Forum","where":"Nairobi, Kenya","note":"Held as a hybrid meeting, so it can be joined without travelling; the theme and the calls for session proposals had not been published at the time of this scan.","url":"https://www.intgovforum.org/en/dashboard/igf-2026","source":"intgovforum.org","door":false,"keywords":["africa","un","global","participation","capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2027-01-01","ends":"2027-01-31","when_text":"January 2027, expected","what":"South Africa reopens public comment on its National AI Policy","where":"South Africa","note":"The April 2026 draft was withdrawn and a revised policy is expected at Cabinet by November 2026 before a fresh comment period opens, so this is a door that has been announced rather than one you can walk through yet.","url":"https://iafrica.com/south-africa-sets-january-2027-public-comment-date-for-revised-national-ai-policy/","source":"iafrica.com","door":true,"keywords":["africa","national-government","ai-strategy","consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2027-05-01","ends":"2027-05-31","when_text":"May 2027, exact dates not yet set","what":"Second session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance","where":"New York, United States","note":"The first session in Geneva drew criticism from civil society coalitions that women and Indigenous Peoples were insufficiently represented, which makes how this one is convened worth watching.","url":"https://www.un.org/global-dialogue-ai-governance/en","source":"un.org","door":false,"keywords":["global","un","participation","consultation","civil-society"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","stamp":"02:03 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"No open consultation found that a member of the public could answer today","where":"","note":"Every AI consultation traced in this scan had already closed: Ireland in April, Canada in March, the EU transparency guidelines in June and the EU high-risk classification guidelines on 23 July. The next announced opening is South Africa in January 2027.","url":"","source":"","door":false,"keywords":["consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-07-31","ends":"2026-07-31","closes":"2026-07-31","when_text":"Closes 31 July 2026 at 23:59 UTC","what":"IGF 2026 call for session proposals","where":"Online, for the December meeting in Nairobi","note":"Governments, civil society, academia, the technical community and the private sector can propose workshops, lightning talks, open forums and Day 0 events, under the published theme Governing the Internet in the Age of Intelligence: Our Shared Responsibility.","url":"https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2026-call-for-session-proposals","source":"intgovforum.org","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["global","un","civil-society","participation","consultation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-05-13","ends":"2026-09-01","closes":"2026-09-01","when_text":"Open now, closes 1 September 2026","what":"Australian Senate inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres","where":"Australia, written submissions","note":"The Environment and Communications References Committee takes written submissions from anyone on how well existing rules manage data centre growth and on the effects on communities, industries, the environment, water and energy. The closing date was extended from 26 June to 1 September 2026 and the committee reports on 16 November 2026.","url":"https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/AIdatacentres48P","source":"aph.gov.au","door":true,"tags":["Q9","Q10"],"keywords":["pacific","parliament","data-centres","consultation","participation","water","energy","environment"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-07-23","ends":"2026-09-23","closes":"2026-09-23","when_text":"Open now, closes 23 September 2026","what":"Canada consults on AI transparency","where":"Canada, online survey or email","note":"Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada asks how people should be told when they are dealing with an AI system or with AI-generated content, and names individuals and residents, business, researchers, civil society and Indigenous groups including First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis among those it wants to hear from.","url":"https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/have-your-say-advancing-ai-transparency-canada","source":"ised-isde.canada.ca","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["north-america","national-government","consultation","participation","transparency","indigenous"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-09-30","ends":"2026-09-30","when_text":"By 30 September 2026","what":"New South Wales data centres inquiry due to report","where":"Sydney, Australia","note":"The Legislative Council's Public Accountability and Works committee closed submissions on 27 March, held five hearings between May and July on electricity demand, water use, noise, heat and land-use conflict, and is due to report by 30 September 2026.","url":"https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3169","source":"parliament.nsw.gov.au","door":false,"tags":["Q10"],"keywords":["pacific","parliament","data-centres","water","energy","environment","planning"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2027-01-15","ends":"2027-01-31","when_text":"January 2027, exact dates not yet set","what":"7th ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting","where":"Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei","note":"Brunei hosts, following the Hanoi meeting of January 2026 that adopted the Hanoi Digital Declaration and stood up an ASEAN AI Safety Network with its secretariat in Kuala Lumpur.","url":"https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/asean-digital-ministers-meeting-2026-spotlight-on-ai-cooperation-in-asias-rising-markets","source":"crowell.com","door":false,"keywords":["asia","regional-bloc","ai-strategy","guidelines","safety"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2027-05-10","ends":"2027-05-21","when_text":"10 to 21 May 2027","what":"26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues","where":"New York, United States","note":"Held under the theme of twenty years of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, at the forum where data centre siting has been raised as a question of consent.","url":"https://social.desa.un.org/issues/indigenous-peoples/news/chair-of-the-un-permanent-forum-on-indigenous-issues-presents-report","source":"social.desa.un.org","door":false,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["global","un","indigenous","consent","data-sovereignty","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-12-14","ends":"2026-12-18","when_text":"14 to 18 December 2026","what":"21st Internet Governance Forum","where":"Nairobi, Kenya","note":"Changed since 28 July: the theme is now published as Governing the Internet in the Age of Intelligence: Our Shared Responsibility, and the call for session proposals opened and closes on 31 July 2026. The 28 July line said neither had been published.","url":"https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2026-call-for-session-proposals","source":"intgovforum.org","door":false,"keywords":["africa","un","global","participation","capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-09-14","ends":"2026-09-17","when_text":"14 to 17 September 2026","what":"4th UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI","where":"Riyadh, Saudi Arabia","note":"Changed since 28 July: registration is now open, through the forum site at gfeai.icaire.org. The 28 July line said registration details were still to come.","url":"https://www.unesco.org/en/forum-ethics-ai","source":"unesco.org","door":false,"keywords":["middle-east","un","global","guidelines","alignment"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-08-30","ends":"2026-09-04","when_text":"30 August to 4 September 2026","what":"55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting","where":"Koror, Palau","note":"Changed since 28 July: the host city is confirmed as Koror. Dates unchanged.","url":"https://islandtimes.org/pacific-leaders-to-meet-in-palau-as-partners-back-logistics-support/","source":"islandtimes.org","door":false,"keywords":["pacific","regional-bloc","summit","ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Three open doors found, correcting the finding of 28 July","where":"","note":"On 28 July this calendar recorded that no open consultation could be found anywhere. Three were open on 31 July: the IGF call for session proposals, closing that day; the Australian Senate inquiry into AI and data centres, closing 1 September; and the Canadian consultation on AI transparency, closing 23 September. The Australian and Canadian ones were already open on 28 July and were missed. The finding was wrong and is corrected here rather than removed.","url":"","source":"","door":false,"keywords":["consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:29 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance submission portal has closed","where":"","note":"The Global Dialogue site now states that its submission portal is closed. The second session is still listed for May 2027 in New York with no exact dates published. Its 28 July line stands in this file; it was held off the page this run in favour of the 26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which has confirmed dates.","url":"https://www.un.org/global-dialogue-ai-governance/en/consultations","source":"un.org","door":false,"keywords":["global","un","consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:44 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-08-02","ends":"2026-08-02","when_text":"2 August 2026","what":"EU AI Act transparency rules start to apply","where":"European Union, all member states","note":"Changed since 28 July, and a correction. The 28 July and 21:29 lines both said the remainder of the Act took effect on 2 August 2026 apart from one article, and that every member state had to have a national AI regulatory sandbox operating by that date. The Digital Omnibus on AI entered into force on 27 July 2026, three days after publication in the Official Journal on 24 July, and deferred the Annex III high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and Annex I high-risk systems embedded in regulated products to 2 August 2028. Article 50 transparency obligations still apply from 2 August 2026, with a grace period to 2 December 2026 for machine-readable marking on systems already on the market. The source previously cited, artificialintelligenceact.eu/implementation-timeline, was last updated 1 August 2024 and did not carry the deferral; the entry now cites lewissilkin.com. The sandbox claim is not repeated because it was not verified against the amended text this run.","url":"https://www.lewissilkin.com/insights/2026/07/27/the-digital-omnibus-on-ai-enters-into-force-today-102nedo","source":"lewissilkin.com","door":false,"keywords":["europe","regulator","ai-law","transparency","standards"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","changed":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:44 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-07-31","ends":"2026-07-31","closes":"2026-07-31","when_text":"Closes 31 July 2026 at 23:59 UTC","what":"IGF 2026 calls: session proposals, village booths and remote hubs","where":"Online, for the December meeting in Nairobi","note":"Changed since the 21:29 line, which described a single call for session proposals. Three calls share the 31 July 2026 23:59 UTC deadline: session proposals, IGF Village booths (free, first come first served, with regard to stakeholder and regional balance) and remote hubs. The remote hub call is the one that asks for no travel, and was missing from the earlier line.","url":"https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2026-call-for-village-booths","source":"intgovforum.org","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["global","un","civil-society","participation","consultation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","stamp":"21:44 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Second door hunt of 31 July: portals checked and what had already closed","where":"","note":"Checked beyond AI regulators, following the method fault recorded at 21:29. Closed: UNESCO Global Forum research and panel proposals (closed 18 July 2026); OECD Governing with Artificial Intelligence global call (closed 20 March 2026); the Citizen Lab People's Consultation on AI (closed 15 March 2026); the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance submission portal; the EU AI Act Advisory Forum call for applications (closed 14 September 2025); the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI nominations (closed 31 October 2025). No live consultation found on industry.gov.au despite an Office of AI standing up in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on 15 July 2026, which is worth re-checking. The Oireachtas pre-legislative scrutiny consultation on the Irish AI Bill could not be read: aph.gov.au and oireachtas.ie both return 403 to the fetch tool, so both were verified through secondary reporting instead. Senate inquiry confirmed: referred 13 May 2026, submissions close 1 September 2026, reports 16 November 2026.","url":"","source":"","door":false,"keywords":["consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-07-31","ends":"2026-08-14","closes":"2026-08-14","when_text":"Open now, closes 14 August 2026","what":"Spain consults before drafting a law on generative AI and performers","where":"Spain, written contributions","note":"The Ministry of Labour and Social Economy opened a prior public consultation on 31 July 2026, closing 14 August 2026, ahead of an organic law on the use of generative AI on the image and voice of people working in the performing arts, audiovisual and music, and the technical and auxiliary workers alongside them. The Council of State advised that an organic law is required because generated content can reach rights protected by article 18 of the Spanish constitution. The provision was removed from Real Decreto 607/2026 as a result. A technical commission with unions and sectoral bodies is proposed to monitor use.","url":"https://institutoautor.org/espana-el-ministerio-de-trabajo-y-economia-social-inicia-una-consulta-publica-previa-a-la-elaboracion-de-un-anteproyecto-de-ley-organica-para-regular-el-uso-de-la-inteligencia-artificial-generativa-e/","source":"institutoautor.org","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["europe","national-government","consultation","participation","consent","copyright"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-07-15","ends":"2026-09-09","closes":"2026-09-09","when_text":"Open now, closes 9 September 2026, 11:59pm","what":"United Kingdom call for evidence on data regulation in the age of AI","where":"United Kingdom, online","note":"Opened 15 July 2026 and closes at 11:59pm on 9 September 2026. Asks for practical examples of how personal and non-personal data regulation interacts with AI and other data-intensive technologies, what is working, where uncertainty remains and where friction is expected. Open to businesses, researchers, civil society and individuals.","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/data-regulation-in-the-age-of-ai-and-other-data-intensive-technologies","source":"gov.uk","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["europe","national-government","consultation","participation","data-sovereignty"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-06-23","ends":"2026-09-10","closes":"2026-09-10","when_text":"Open now, closes 10 September 2026","what":"Uruguay consults on children, adolescents, digital environments and AI","where":"Uruguay, online and in person","note":"Run by the Uruguayan parliament with the national honorary consultative council on the rights of children and adolescents, AGESIC, Ceibal, UNICEF and UNDP. Published phases: preparation and co-design 15 May to 23 June; open consultation and multi-stakeholder exchange 23 June to 10 September; systematisation, analysis and validation 10 September to 20 October; final report 30 November 2026. The open digital consultation closes 10 September. Separate sittings are held for children and adolescents in formats matched to age, context, language and progressive autonomy. Found by searching in Spanish; absent from every English-language search run this scan.","url":"https://plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy/processes/participacion-ninos-ninas-adolescentes-entornos-digitales","source":"plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["latin-america","parliament","consultation","participation","online-safety"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-09-25","ends":"2026-09-25","closes":"2026-09-25","when_text":"Closes 25 September 2026, 17:00","what":"United Kingdom all-party parliamentary group on data centres taking written evidence","where":"United Kingdom, by email","note":"Inquiry titled Unlocking the UK Data Centre Growth Opportunity, chaired by Chris Curtis MP, written evidence by 17:00 on 25 September 2026 to info@datacentresappg.co.uk, three oral evidence sessions between September and November on energy infrastructure and international competitiveness, investment and planning, and innovation and sustainability, recommendations December 2026. Those invited are named as operators and developers, investors, energy suppliers, network operators, water providers, consultancies, local authorities, technology providers, trade associations, environmental groups and academic institutions. Individuals are not named.","url":"https://dcnnmagazine.com/business/regulations/data-centres-appg-launches-uk-growth-inquiry/","source":"dcnnmagazine.com","door":true,"tags":["Q10"],"keywords":["europe","parliament","data-centres","consultation","energy","environment","planning"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-11-09","ends":"2026-11-27","when_text":"9 to 27 November 2026","what":"ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26)","where":"Doha, Qatar","note":"The highest policy-making conference of the International Telecommunication Union, held every four years, with all 194 member states setting the union policies, direction and activities and electing its leadership. Agenda includes global connectivity, internet governance, child online protection and the governance of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. Decisions run to 2030.","url":"https://pp.itu.int/2026/en/","source":"pp.itu.int","door":false,"keywords":["middle-east","un","standards-body","global","guidelines"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-31","changed":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-07-31","ends":"2026-08-02","closes":"2026-08-02","when_text":"Closed 2 August 2026, 23:59 UTC","what":"IGF 2026 calls: session proposals, village booths and remote hubs","where":"Online, for the December meeting in Nairobi","note":"Changed since 31 July: the deadline was extended from 31 July 2026 to Sunday 2 August 2026 at 23:59 UTC. This page carried 31 July, the date announced at the time, and did not catch the extension until this scan, by which point it had closed. Recorded rather than tidied away: a deadline that moves once can move again.","url":"https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2026-call-for-session-proposals","source":"intgovforum.org","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["global","un","civil-society","participation","consultation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2027-05-03","ends":"2027-05-04","when_text":"3 to 4 May 2027","what":"Second session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance","where":"New York, United States","note":"Changed since 28 July, when this was recorded as May 2027 with exact dates not set. The dates are now published as 3 and 4 May 2027 in New York, held alongside the Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Global Goals. No submission window is open; the written submission process for the first Dialogue closed 30 April 2026 and the Partnerships Hub closed 23 June 2026. Held off the page this run for space.","url":"https://www.un.org/global-dialogue-ai-governance/en/faq","source":"un.org","door":false,"keywords":["global","un","participation","consultation","civil-society"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-08-30","ends":"2026-09-04","when_text":"30 August to 4 September 2026","what":"55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting","where":"Koror, Palau","note":"Changed since 31 July: the theme is confirmed by the Forum Secretariat as B.E.L.A.U, Building Economies: Life. Action. Unity. Earlier lines carried the truncated form Building Economies: Life. The July Forum ICT Ministers Meeting in Port Moresby is described by the Forum as the first held under the Pacific Islands Forum, following the 2023 Pacific ICT Ministers Dialogue and the Lagatoi Declaration, and endorsed by leaders at the 54th meeting in Honiara in September 2025. Dates and venue unchanged.","url":"https://www.theprif.org/event/regional-event/2026-08-30/55th-pacific-islands-forum-leaders-meeting","source":"theprif.org","door":false,"keywords":["pacific","regional-bloc","summit","ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"move","starts":"2026-08-02","ends":"2026-08-02","when_text":"2 August 2026","what":"Two entries moved to what already came","where":"","note":"Moved from ahead.html to ahead/index.html because their dates passed: the EU AI Act transparency rules, which started to apply on 2 August 2026, and the IGF 2026 calls, which closed 2 August 2026. The EU entry carries an outcome from the watch, which logged Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entering into force on 27 July. The IGF entry carries no outcome: the watch logged nothing and the IGF has not published which proposals were accepted, which is recorded on the page as a finding rather than left blank.","url":"","source":"","door":false,"keywords":["consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Method note: searching in Spanish found two doors that English searches missed","where":"","note":"Six open doors found this scan, against three on 31 July. Two of the three new ones, Spain and Uruguay, surfaced only on a search run in Spanish using the terms a government uses, consulta publica and plazo. Neither appeared in any English-language search run first, including searches specifically for consultations closing in August, September and October 2026. Portals and bodies checked with nothing open: EU (Apply AI Strategy closed 4 June 2025, high-risk classification guidelines closed 23 July 2026, transparency guidelines closed 3 June 2026, serious incident guidance closed 7 November 2025, AI sandboxes closed 13 January 2026, TDM rights reservation closed 9 January 2026); Ireland pre-legislative scrutiny closed 13 April 2026; Malaysia AI Governance Bill closed 31 July 2026; UN Global Dialogue submissions closed; Italy generative AI procurement guidelines closed 8 April 2026; China MIIT AI use cases closed 1 July 2026. Dropped for want of a readable source: a US Federal Register notice on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey, comments due 9 September 2026, because federalregister.gov redirects the fetch tool to an unblock page. aph.gov.au, oireachtas.ie, parlamento.gub.uy and intgovforum.org all return 403 to the fetch tool and were verified through secondary sources or alternate official pages.","url":"","source":"","door":false,"keywords":["consultation","participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","stamp":"12:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Three future entries held off the page for space, not dropped","where":"","note":"The page cap is twelve entries and twelve open doors and dated events were carried. Held in this file only: South Africa expected January 2027 comment period on its revised National AI Policy; the 7th ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, January 2027, exact dates not set; and the second UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, 3 and 4 May 2027, New York. Also held off: the Australian national cabinet consideration of mandatory data centre standards, expected August 2026 with legislation early 2027, which was on the page from 28 July. It has no fixed date and no meeting a member of the public can attend or join, so it fails the place test in the routine; the Senate inquiry closing 1 September is the door onto the same subject and is on the page.","url":"https://www.industry.gov.au/NationalDataCentreExpectations","source":"industry.gov.au","door":false,"keywords":["pacific","national-government","data-centres","standards"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-11", "stamp": "13:20 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-07-10", "ends": "2026-09-08", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "Open now, closes 8 September 2026", "what": "United States, comment period on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey", "where": "United States, by email to the BLS clearance officer", "note": "The Bureau of Labor Statistics proposes asking people whether they use AI tools, for what tasks, and how that use sits against work, education, household responsibilities and leisure. The bureau states that no federal survey currently links an individual's AI use to a detailed record of their activities. Questions are to be fielded from January 2027 for two years, so the comment period is when the wording can still be changed. Published in the Federal Register on 10 July 2026, document 2026-13928, a 60 day period under the Paperwork Reduction Act.", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/10/2026-13928/proposed-information-collection-atus-artificial-intelligence-ai-questions", "source": "federalregister.gov", "door": true, "tags": ["Q9"], "keywords": ["north-america", "national-government", "consultation", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-11", "stamp": "13:20 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "correction", "starts": "2026-07-10", "ends": "2026-09-08", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "Closes 8 September 2026, previously recorded as 9 September", "what": "Correction: the ATUS comment date is 8 September, and the entry should not have been dropped", "where": "United States", "note": "The 12:34 scan on 11 August found this notice, recorded the closing date as 9 September 2026, and then dropped it from the page for want of a readable source, because federalregister.gov returns a block page to the fetch tool and the Justia mirror returns HTTP 403. Both facts were wrong in effect. The date is 8 September 2026, and the source is readable through the same site's JSON interface at federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2026-13928.json, which returned comments_close_on 2026-09-08 without difficulty. Method note for later runs: when a government page blocks the fetch tool, try its machine-readable interface before recording the entry as unverifiable. A blocked page is not a closed door.", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2026-13928.json", "source": "federalregister.gov", "door": true, "tags": ["Q9"], "keywords": ["north-america", "national-government", "consultation", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-11", "stamp": "13:20 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "note", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Second scan of 11 August: French and Portuguese sweeps empty, one entry moved off the page, nothing expired", "note": "Seven doors now open, against six at 12:34. Nothing on the page had passed its date, so nothing moved to ahead/index.html this scan. Removed from the page but kept here: the New South Wales data centres inquiry due to report by 30 September 2026, parliament.nsw.gov.au inquiry 3169. It was cut to hold the twelve entry cap when the United States door was added, on the grounds that a committee reporting date is not a place a person can be or join from and so fails the third test in the routine; its report belongs to the watch when it lands. Language sweeps run this scan on the pattern that found Spain and Uruguay in Spanish: French returned nothing open, the French citizen consultation on AI and digital priorities having run 10 December 2025 to 12 January 2026 with 6,122 contributions; Portuguese returned nothing open, the Brazilian ANPD consultation on its transparency and data protection guide having closed 24 July 2026 and the Ministry of Justice digital rights consultation on 4 May 2026. Also checked and shut: UK Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into the sustainability of data centres, written evidence closed 5pm 6 April 2026; MHRA National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare call for evidence, closed 2 February 2026. Verified as still correct: Spain closing 14 August, Australian Senate closing 1 September with a 16 November reporting date, and the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting on 30 August to 4 September in Koror. Nothing was dropped under the defence exclusion this scan.", "where": "", "url": "https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3169", "source": "parliament.nsw.gov.au", "door": false, "keywords": ["consultation", "participation"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","stamp":"13:07 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-08-18","ends":"2026-08-20","when_text":"18 to 20 August 2026","what":"Cameroon Internet Governance Forum 2026, on moving from fragmentation to interoperability and making data the foundation of public digital infrastructure, covering data ownership, storage, sharing and protection, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and digital divides, with a side meeting on women, data and artificial intelligence","where":"Palais des Congres, Yaounde, Cameroon","url":"https://afriqueitnews.com/crypto-et-web3/cameroun-fgi-2026-place-donnee-coeur-futurs-services-publics-numeriques/","source":"afriqueitnews.com","tags":[],"keywords":["africa","national-government","civil-society","participation","data-sovereignty","capacity-building"],"note":"Organised by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Civil society named among participants. Dates confirmed against the AITN report after the Digital Business Africa page did not carry them."}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","stamp":"13:07 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-08-19","ends":"2026-08-19","when_text":"19 August 2026","what":"A Texas House committee meets on whether special rules are needed to protect residents' water and electricity from data centre demand. Data centres in Texas do not report water use and need no permit from the state environmental commission to draw groundwater. The Laredo representative Richard Pena Raymond has asked the Governor for a special session and a moratorium on further approvals until impacts are assessed","where":"Austin, Texas, United States","url":"https://elmanana.com.mx/laredo-texas/2026/8/12/haran-reunion-para-cuidar-el-agua-y-la-electricidad-ante-la-instalacion-de-centro-de-datos-en-laredo-178475.html","source":"elmanana.com.mx","tags":["Q10"],"keywords":["north-america","parliament","data-centres","water","energy"],"note":"Surfaced on a Spanish-language search of Mexican border coverage, invisible to the English queries run the same day."}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","stamp":"13:07 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-08-19","ends":"","when_text":"From 19 August 2026","what":"First of a series of Mexican regional forums with parents, teachers and specialists on children's use of digital platforms and artificial intelligence, intended to produce a bill to Congress","where":"Nuevo Leon, Mexico, then other states","url":"https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2026/08/10/del-scroll-infinito-a-la-ia-como-psicologo-la-advertencia-de-sheinbaum-a-las-familias-mexicanas/","source":"infobae.com","tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["latin-america","national-government","consultation","participation","online-safety"],"note":"Announced by President Claudia Sheinbaum on 10 August and logged on the watch that day. Carried across to the calendar because it has a date and a place and has not happened yet. Whether the forums shape the bill is checkable later against the bill text."}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","stamp":"13:07 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Scan of 14 August: three entries added, nothing expired, no new open doors found","where":"","url":"","source":"","tags":[],"keywords":[],"note":"Fifteen entries, seven of them open doors, unchanged from 11 August because no new door was found. Doors checked and already closed: Kenya's emerging technologies policy consultation closed 4 August, South Africa's draft national AI policy was withdrawn on 26 April over its reference list, and the Citizen Lab People's Consultation on AI in Canada closed 15 March. Nothing on the page had passed its date, so nothing moved to ahead/index.html. Spain's prior consultation closes today, 14 August, and should move on the next run."}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","changed":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"correction","starts":"2026-08-19","ends":"2026-08-19","closes":"2026-08-19","when_text":"19 August 2026, 8:00am","what":"Texas House State Affairs Committee hears invited and public testimony on data centre development","where":"Austin, Texas, United States","note":"Recorded on 14 August as a committee meeting called to consider protecting residents' water and electricity after concern at Laredo. The committee's own notice is broader and is now the basis of the entry: the interim charges lead with the importance of data centre development to global competitiveness and national security, then cover economic growth multipliers, education and training pathways, review of the regulatory framework and streamlining it while communities can still plan and manage growth, implementation of Senate Bill 6, how grid-connected facilities can support grid resilience, and the regulatory and planning process for proposed 765-kV transmission lines. Reclassified from event to door: the notice sets out how to register to testify and how to submit electronic comments, so a member of the public can be counted without travelling to Austin.","url":"https://www.tml.org/1153/August-7-2026-Number-30","source":"tml.org","door":true,"tags":["Q10"],"keywords":["north-america","parliament","data-centres","consultation","participation","water","energy","grid"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","changed":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-08-19","ends":"2026-09-17","when_text":"19 August, 3 September and 17 September 2026","what":"Mexico's regional forums on children, adolescents, digital platforms and artificial intelligence","where":"Nuevo Leon, then Chiapas, then Guerrero, Mexico","note":"Recorded on 14 August as beginning 19 August in Nuevo Leon with later states unnamed. The presidency's own announcement gives all three: north-east at Nuevo Leon on 19 August 2026, south and south-east at Chiapas on 3 September 2026, south and centre at Guerrero on 17 September 2026. They follow talks already run by the education ministry in the metropolitan region, Baja California Sur and Jalisco. Conclusions are intended to go to the Congress of the Union as a bill.","url":"https://www.gob.mx/presidencia/prensa/presidenta-anuncia-foros-para-crear-propuesta-de-regulacion-del-uso-de-plataformas-digitales-y-redes-sociales-en-ninas-ninos-y-adolescentes","source":"gob.mx","tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["latin-america","national-government","consultation","participation","online-safety"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-14","changed":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-08-18","ends":"2026-08-20","when_text":"18 to 20 August 2026","what":"Cameroon Internet Governance Forum 2026","where":"Palais des Congres, Yaounde, Cameroon","note":"Dates unchanged and confirmed. New fact recorded: participation was free but registration closed at 11:59pm on 12 August 2026, so the door to attend had already shut when this entry was first written on 14 August. Organised by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications under the patronage of the Prime Minister.","url":"https://www.digitalbusiness.africa/gouvernance-de-linternet-cameroun-le-fgi-2026-veut-faire-de-la-donnee-le-socle-des-infrastructures-publiques-numeriques/","source":"digitalbusiness.africa","tags":[],"keywords":["africa","national-government","civil-society","participation","data-sovereignty","capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-09-02","ends":"2026-09-29","closes":"2026-09-29","when_text":"2, 10, 15, 25, 26 and 29 September 2026","what":"Charlotte holds six public sessions on what should replace its data centre moratorium","where":"Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, and online","note":"The city adopted a 150-day moratorium on new data centre approvals in June 2026, running to 5 November 2026, and must propose changes, hold a public hearing and put new policy in place before it expires. Four sessions in person: Wednesday 2 September 3pm to 5pm at Hornets Nest Park, David Williamson Jr Indoor Pavilion, 6301 Beatties Ford Road; Thursday 10 September 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the One Water facility, 4100 W Tyvola Road; Tuesday 15 September 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Project 658, 3646 Central Avenue; Saturday 26 September 4pm to 6pm at University City United Methodist Church, W T Harris Boulevard. Two on Zoom: Friday 25 September noon to 2pm and Tuesday 29 September 6pm to 8pm. Registration through the city's online system is required. A data centre task force was appointed to meet from 13 August 2026.","url":"https://www.charlottenc.gov/City-News/Data-Centers-Moratorium-FAQs","source":"charlottenc.gov","door":true,"tags":["Q10"],"keywords":["north-america","local-government","data-centres","consultation","participation","moratorium","water","energy","planning"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"door","starts":"2026-07-20","ends":"2026-09-18","closes":"2026-09-18","when_text":"Open now, closes 18 September 2026","what":"Spain consults on the 2026 update of its national Digital Decade roadmap","where":"Spain, through the ministry's electronic office","note":"Opened 20 July 2026 by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, closing 18 September 2026. Covers take-up of artificial intelligence, cloud and data analytics by companies alongside connectivity, digital skills, quantum technologies, cybersecurity and digital sustainability, feeding the national roadmap to 2030. Named contributors: people writing on their own account, companies, business associations, universities and research centres, public administrations, civil society organisations, unions, consumer organisations, professional bodies and other interested entities.","url":"https://digital.gob.es/comunicacion/notas-prensa/secretaria-digitalizacion-e-inteligencia-artificial/2026/07/abierta-la-consulta-publica-para-actualizar-la-hoja-de-ruta-de-l","source":"digital.gob.es","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["europe","national-government","consultation","participation","ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-07-28","changed":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"change","starts":"2026-08-30","ends":"2026-09-04","when_text":"30 August to 4 September 2026","what":"55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting","where":"Koror, Palau","note":"Dates and venue unchanged. Agenda item recorded: at the 2026 Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting, reported on 14 August 2026, ministers supported the Pacific Digital and Artificial Intelligence Technology Principles for consideration by Forum Leaders in Palau, and backed development of a regional AI governance framework, with the principles to be tested and adapted before Leaders consider the framework in 2027. Ministers also supported a Pacific regional approach to safer digital spaces, to be developed in phases with policy principles and capacity building. All Forum members are now connected to undersea telecommunications cables.","url":"https://pina.com.fj/2026/08/14/pacific-ministers-back-ai-rules-and-safer-digital-spaces-as-connectivity-expands/","source":"pina.com.fj","tags":[],"keywords":["pacific","regional-bloc","summit","ai-strategy","guidelines"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"event","starts":"2026-09-22","ends":"2026-09-23","when_text":"22 and 23 September 2026","what":"Pan African AI Summit 2026, with Smart Africa's Director General speaking","where":"Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra, Ghana","note":"Held off the page for space, not dropped. Smart Africa is the African Union endorsed alliance of 40 member states. The programme is billed as keynotes, ministerial dialogues, roundtables, a hackathon pitch competition, a masterclass and an exhibition, with more than 1,800 delegates expected. No open call for proposals or submissions was found.","url":"https://panafricanaisummit.com/","source":"panafricanaisummit.com","tags":[],"keywords":["africa","regional-bloc","summit","capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-11","changed":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"move","starts":"2026-07-31","ends":"2026-08-14","closes":"2026-08-14","when_text":"Closed 14 August 2026","what":"Spain's prior consultation on generative AI and performers moved to what already came","where":"Spain, written contributions","note":"Moved from ahead.html to ahead/index.html because its closing date passed. The watch has logged no outcome. One narrowing recorded alongside it: reporting on 11 August 2026 describes the future rule as directed at performers holding intellectual property rights, with technical and auxiliary personnel outside it, although the consultation notice named those workers. Whether the draft carries them is the checkable question when it appears.","url":"https://www.newtral.es/ia-generativa-trabajo-artistas/20260811/","source":"newtral.es","door":true,"tags":["Q9"],"keywords":["europe","national-government","consultation","participation","consent","copyright"]}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Scan of 15 August: twelve entries, nine of them doors, two doors new, one entry moved off","where":"","url":"","source":"","tags":[],"keywords":[],"note":"Both new doors are local rather than national: the Texas House State Affairs Committee hearing on 19 August, which takes public testimony and electronic comments, and Charlotte's six September sessions on its data centre moratorium. Portals checked and found shut: France, citizen consultation on AI and digital priorities closed 12 January 2026 and the digital sovereignty consultation closed 5 June 2026; Brazil, the ANPD society consultation on the AI regulatory sandbox was held on 13 August 2026 with registrations closed on 15 June, the transparency guide closed 24 July and the ethical AI use guide closed 4 May; Ireland, the Oireachtas committee's pre-legislative scrutiny of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 closed 13 April 2026; the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance submission portal states it has closed; India's AI governance guidelines consultation closed 27 February and the IT rules amendments closed 7 May; the Caribbean Telecommunications Union's first Caribbean AI Forum was held 23 and 24 July 2026. Method note for the next run: two university calendars still list the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit of 14 to 17 April 2026 as an upcoming event with no marking that it has passed, so a calendar listing is not evidence of a future date."}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-15","stamp":"09:43 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"note","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Five entries held off the page for space under the twelve entry cap","where":"","url":"","source":"","tags":[],"keywords":[],"note":"Doors were kept ahead of diary entries, so these five events sit in the record and in the closing paragraph of ahead.html rather than in the entry list: 4th UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI, 14 to 17 September 2026, Riyadh; Pan African AI Summit, 22 and 23 September 2026, Accra; ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, 9 to 27 November 2026, Doha; 21st Internet Governance Forum, 14 to 18 December 2026, Nairobi, hybrid; 26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 10 to 21 May 2027, New York. Also still held from earlier runs: South Africa's expected comment period in January 2027, the 7th ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting in January 2027, the second UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance on 3 and 4 May 2027, and the New South Wales data centres inquiry due to report by 30 September 2026."}
{"first_seen":"2026-08-15","stamp":"11:07 Brisbane (UTC+10)","type":"correction","starts":"","ends":"","when_text":"","what":"Correction: the twelve entry cap is abolished and the five entries held off the page for space are restored","where":"","url":"","source":"","tags":[],"keywords":[],"note":"Luke pulled this up directly. Runs on 11 and 15 August read the routine's 'three to twelve entries' house rule as a hard ceiling and evicted qualifying entries to stay under it, leaving them in this file with a line on the page saying they were held off for space. Restored to the page: 4th UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI, 14 to 17 September 2026, Riyadh; Pan African AI Summit, 22 and 23 September 2026, Accra; ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, 9 to 27 November 2026, Doha; 21st Internet Governance Forum, 14 to 18 December 2026, Nairobi; 26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 10 to 21 May 2027, New York. Seventeen entries now, nine of them doors. The rule in the routine has been rewritten to say there is no upper limit and that nothing qualifying is ever removed to make room. The original rule was aimed at padding, meaning do not invent filler to reach a number, and was never meant to evict real meetings. Still held from earlier runs and worth reinstating when confirmed: South Africa's expected comment period in January 2027, the 7th ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting in January 2027, and the second UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance on 3 and 4 May 2027. The New South Wales data centres inquiry stays off on its own merits, because a committee reporting date is not a place a person can attend."}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-08-18", "ends": "2026-08-18", "when_text": "18 August 2026", "what": "Denton City Council votes on whether to set public hearings for a data centre moratorium", "where": "Denton, Texas, United States", "note": "A council majority of four to three directed staff in early August 2026 to prepare a 90-day moratorium on data centre approvals and amendments to the Denton development code, after the municipal utility warned the grid is near capacity. The 18 August vote sets the hearing dates. If passed, the first public hearing could occur as early as 22 September 2026 and the second as early as 27 October 2026, with a possible moratorium ruling on 2 December 2026. Those three dates are tentative and contingent on the 18 August vote. A moratorium requires a supermajority.", "url": "https://communityimpact.com/denton/government/denton-officials-to-vote-on-public-hearings-for-data-center-moratorium-development-code-updates/", "source": "communityimpact.com", "door": false, "tags": ["Q10"], "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "participation", "moratorium", "energy", "grid", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-03", "ends": "2026-09-03", "closes": "2026-09-03", "when_text": "3 September 2026", "what": "Hendersonville City Council public hearing on a data centre moratorium of up to twelve months", "where": "Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States", "note": "The council set the hearing at its 22 July 2026 meeting. The moratorium would halt city approvals including building, zoning and special use permits for any data centre for up to twelve months while the city updates its code. City Attorney Angie Beeker told the council the existing ordinance is outdated and not prepared to address data centres, citing water use, electricity use and noise. Mayor Barbara Volk has indicated the city is considering size caps, minimum distances and sound barriers. No data centre is currently proposed in Hendersonville. The reporting gives the date but not the starting time or the room.", "url": "https://www.aol.com/articles/hendersonville-moves-ahead-toward-one-173031000.html", "source": "Hendersonville Times-News, syndicated", "door": true, "tags": ["Q10"], "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "water", "energy", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-12", "ends": "2026-10-13", "closes": "2026-10-13", "when_text": "Opened 12 August 2026, closes 13 October 2026 at 11:59pm Eastern", "what": "NIST request for information on modernising the National Vulnerability Database in the age of artificial intelligence", "where": "United States, online through the federal rulemaking portal at regulations.gov, docket NIST-2026-0100", "note": "The National Institute of Standards and Technology seeks input on opportunities, challenges and priorities for modernising the NVD, the public catalogue of known software flaws that security tools read from. Areas named include improving vulnerability data quality, governance and machine-readability; how AI-enabled tools can be integrated into software development to identify and address vulnerabilities earlier while retaining human oversight, transparency and data quality; and capabilities, services and performance metrics for the NVD over the next five years. The RFI follows a sharp rise in reported vulnerabilities attributed in part to AI-assisted discovery outpacing the catalogue.", "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/12/2026-16371/request-for-information-rfi-on-modernizing-the-national-vulnerability-database-in-the-age-of", "source": "federalregister.gov", "door": true, "tags": ["Q9"], "keywords": ["north-america", "standards-body", "consultation", "participation", "transparency", "safety"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-11-10", "ends": "2027-01-05", "closes": "2027-01-05", "when_text": "10 November 2026 and 5 January 2027", "what": "Fort Worth holds two public hearings before adopting a 90-day data centre moratorium", "where": "Fort Worth, Texas, United States", "note": "Council voted unanimously on 11 August 2026 to initiate the moratorium process and create a Data Center and Infrastructure Committee. Published timetable: notice of first public hearing 9 October 2026; committee presents studies and report in work session 3 November 2026; first public hearing 10 November 2026; notice of second public hearing 13 November 2026; second public hearing 5 January 2027; first reading of the proposed ordinance 12 January 2027; second reading and adoption by supermajority 16 February 2027; moratorium ends 17 May 2027. Residents may speak at both public hearings. During the pause, staff are to evaluate noise impacts, effects on water supplies, long-term water availability, land-use compatibility and associated infrastructure. Projects with already-submitted or approved zoning applications are exempt.", "url": "https://fortworthreport.org/2026/08/12/data-center-moratorium-takes-first-steps-after-fort-worth-city-councils-unanimous-vote/", "source": "fortworthreport.org", "door": true, "tags": ["Q10"], "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "water", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-12-02", "ends": "2026-12-02", "when_text": "2 December 2026", "what": "EU AI Act: marking grace period ends and two new prohibited practices begin", "where": "European Union, all member states", "note": "Generative AI systems already on the market before 2 August 2026 were given a transitional period until 2 December 2026 to comply with the machine-readable marking and detection obligation for synthetic content. From the same date, two practices added to Article 5 by the Digital Omnibus on AI are prohibited: AI systems designed to generate non-consensual intimate imagery, and AI systems that generate child sexual abuse material. The Digital Omnibus, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, entered into force on 27 July 2026 and deferred stand-alone Annex III high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and embedded Annex I systems to 2 August 2028.", "url": "https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/implementation-timeline/", "source": "artificialintelligenceact.eu", "door": false, "tags": [], "keywords": ["europe", "regulator", "ai-law", "transparency", "standards", "consent"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2027-01", "ends": "2027-01", "when_text": "January 2027, exact date not yet set", "what": "7th ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting", "where": "Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam", "note": "Brunei hosts the digital ministers of the ten ASEAN member states and dialogue partners. The 6th ADGMIN adopted an expanded ASEAN framework on AI governance and ethics covering generative AI and set work in train on a regional AI safety network. Host and month are published; the days are not, so this entry carries no marked day on the ahead calendar. Reinstated from the list earlier runs held back pending confirmation.", "url": "https://asean.org/joint-media-statement-of-the-6th-asean-digital-ministers-meeting-and-related-meetings/", "source": "asean.org", "door": false, "tags": [], "keywords": ["asia", "regional-bloc", "summit", "ai-strategy", "guidelines"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2027-05-03", "ends": "2027-05-04", "when_text": "3 and 4 May 2027", "what": "Second session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance", "where": "New York, United States", "note": "Established by General Assembly resolution as a recurring annual mechanism open to all member states and to stakeholders including civil society. The first session was held in Geneva on 6 and 7 July 2026, alongside the WSIS Forum and the AI for Good Global Summit. The second session is scheduled in New York alongside the Multistakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Global Goals. The FAQ states that registration arrangements and requirements for future annual Dialogues will be published on the Dialogue website when available; no submission window is open at present. Joint secretariat: ITU, UNESCO, ODET and EOSG. Reinstated from the list earlier runs held back pending confirmation. Note the proximity to the 26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in the same city on 10 to 21 May 2027.", "url": "https://www.un.org/global-dialogue-ai-governance/en/faq", "source": "un.org", "door": false, "tags": ["Q9"], "keywords": ["global", "un", "summit", "guidelines", "participation", "ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-16", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "South Africa's expected January 2027 AI policy comment period is removed from the standing list", "where": "South Africa", "note": "Earlier runs held South Africa's expected comment period in January 2027 on the reinstatement list. Checked this run: the Draft South Africa National Artificial Intelligence Policy, approved by Cabinet on 25 March 2026 and published for 60 days of written comment closing 10 June 2026, was withdrawn by the Minister on 26 April 2026 after fictitious sources were found in its reference list. No date has been published for a new comment period, so nothing goes on the ahead page until one is. Also checked and found shut this run: Kenya's Draft Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy 2026, public participation closed 4 August 2026; European Commission consultation on draft guidelines for classifying high-risk AI systems, extended to 23 July 2026; European Commission consultation on draft transparency guidelines, closed 3 June 2026; US Federal Trade Commission proposed policy statement on suppression of accuracy in AI systems, comments closed 31 July 2026; India MeitY draft IT Rules amendments on AI content labelling, closed 7 May 2026; Brazil MJSP guide to ethical AI use, closed 4 May 2026, and guidelines on AI in education, closed 17 June 2026; UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI call for candidates, closed 31 October 2025; EMRIP call for inputs on Indigenous Peoples' right to data, ran 2025 with the study adopted at the 18th session in July 2025. No open EMRIP or UNPFII call for inputs was found.", "url": "https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/202604/54477gen3880.pdf", "source": "gov.za", "door": false, "tags": [], "keywords": ["africa", "national-government", "consultation", "ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-09", "ends": "2026-09-22", "closes": "2026-09-22", "when_text": "9 and 22 September 2026", "what": "Prince William County reheard public hearings on the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District amendment (DPA2026-00006)", "where": "Prince William County, Virginia, United States", "note": "The Board of County Supervisors initiated the amendment on 9 June to reduce and redefine the overlay district boundaries, limiting it to parcels meeting one of five county-defined eligibility pathways and eliminating by-right data centre development. The planning commission is to rehear the entirety of the proposal on 9 September because community mailers gave improper public notice of the first hearing. An email from the county planning director dated 23 July states staff anticipate presenting the case to the Board of County Supervisors at a public hearing on 22 September. Residents may speak at both. The rehearing itself is the Q9 point: a hearing set aside because the people who should have been told were not told properly.", "url": "https://www.pwcva.gov/department/planning-office/dpa2026-00006-data-center-opportunity-zone-overlay-district-dcozod", "source": "pwcva.gov", "door": true, "tags": ["Q9", "Q10"], "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "planning", "land"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-10", "ends": "2026-09-10", "closes": "2026-09-10", "when_text": "10 September 2026", "what": "Southport Board of Aldermen public hearing on a data centre moratorium of up to fifteen months", "where": "Southport, North Carolina, United States", "note": "The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously on 13 August 2026 to move forward with scheduling the public hearing, following a July vote by the town planning board requesting the moratorium. The moratorium would halt approvals for data centre projects while city staff develop land use standards. Reporting gives the date but not the starting time or the room, so the board agenda needs checking before attending. Third North Carolina municipality on the page taking this step within weeks, alongside Charlotte and Hendersonville.", "url": "https://www.wect.com/2026/08/14/public-hearing-set-southport-data-center-moratorium/", "source": "wect.com", "door": true, "tags": ["Q10"], "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-09-16", "ends": "2026-09-16", "when_text": "16 September 2026", "what": "Mississauga council to approve the interim control bylaw giving effect to its AI data centre moratorium", "where": "Mississauga, Ontario, Canada", "note": "Councillors voted unanimously in July 2026 for a moratorium of one year, and up to two, on new AI data centre developments, after public deputations at the council meeting. The interim control bylaw comes forward for council approval on 16 September. Staff are also to bring an interim report to council later in the year setting out the study scope, the consultation strategy and review timelines, so the date on which residents are formally consulted is not yet published; that interim report is the thing to watch. A proponent is expected to appeal. Reported as the first Ontario city to pause new AI data centres.", "url": "https://www.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/mississauga-moves-to-pause-data-centre-development/", "source": "mississauga.ca", "door": false, "tags": ["Q10"], "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "moratorium", "planning", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-12", "ends": "2026-10-07", "closes": "2026-10-07", "when_text": "Opened 12 August 2026, closes 7 October 2026", "what": "Northern Ireland public consultation on its draft Artificial Intelligence Strategy", "where": "Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, online", "note": "The Executive Office opened an eight-week consultation on 12 August 2026. The draft strategy sets out a vision for the responsible, ethical and fair adoption of AI across the public sector, built on eight principles: human oversight, accountability and redress, data governance, technical safety and security, fairness and transparency, sustainability, societal benefit, and training and literacy. It states AI should augment human capabilities rather than replace them and that human decision-making is preserved. The First Minister said the office wants to hear directly from people, communities and organisations so the strategy is shaped by those most impacted, which places individuals inside the invitation. Responses go through the Executive Office consultations page.", "url": "https://www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/news/executive-office-launches-consultation-artificial-intelligence-strategy", "source": "executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk", "door": true, "tags": ["Q9"], "keywords": ["europe", "national-government", "consultation", "participation", "ai-strategy", "transparency"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-10-01", "ends": "2026-10-01", "when_text": "1 October 2026", "what": "South Australian Royal Commission into Artificial Intelligence commences", "where": "South Australia, Australia", "note": "Announced by Premier Peter Malinauskas on 11 August 2026. Commences 1 October 2026, final report to government no later than 1 July 2027. Three commissioners to be appointed with expertise in current AI technologies, labour and employment, and economics and business; cost put at more than three million dollars. Scope covers effects on work, the creative industries, education, health, industry and public services. Expected to take evidence and submissions from business, industry bodies, unions, technology developers, academics, independent experts and creative industry representatives, but no submission window has been published, so it is logged as a meeting and not a door. Two caveats recorded at first entry: the Premier said terms of reference would be confirmed within about six weeks of the announcement, so scope was still being drafted; and he stated infrastructure such as data centres is excluded, which places the buildings and their water and power demand outside a state inquiry into AI's effects on that state.", "url": "https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2026/south-australia-announces-ai-royal-commission.html", "source": "ia.acs.org.au", "door": false, "tags": ["Q9"], "keywords": ["pacific", "national-government", "new-institution", "ai-strategy", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Next state-level global AI summit held off the page: Geneva 2027 has a city and a year but no month", "where": "Geneva, Switzerland", "note": "Swiss President Guy Parmelin announced at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on 19 February 2026 that Switzerland will host the next global summit on AI in Geneva in 2027, co-hosted with ITU and UN partners, with the United Arab Emirates to host in 2028. One secondary source gave 21 and 22 June 2027; this could not be confirmed against digitalswitzerland or swissinfo, both of which give the year only. Held off the page under the rule that an entry needs a real date from the source, a month at minimum. Recheck when a month is published. Preparatory events named for 2026: the Digital Summit in May and the digitalswitzerland forum in September.", "url": "https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/switzerland-to-host-the-next-world-summit-on-ai/90966531", "source": "swissinfo.ch", "door": false, "tags": [], "keywords": ["europe", "global", "summit", "un", "ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-17", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Method note: Spanish-language searches returned 2023 and 2024 consultation cycles presented as current", "where": "Search method", "note": "Two apparently strong open doors turned out to be old cycles resurfacing. A consultation on revising Uruguay's National AI Strategy and creating a National Data Strategy, described in search results as running 16 September to 7 October, is the 2024 cycle: the process page on plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy gives phases from May 2023 to October 2024 with the public consultation 16 September to 6 October 2024. The Xunta de Galicia consultation on a future Galician AI law is the 2023 cycle, open 15 September to 15 October 2023. Both were dropped. Rule for future runs: every Spanish and Portuguese language consultation hit must be opened and the year read off the source page before it goes on the calendar, because the search layer strips the year from these pages.", "url": "https://plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy/processes/estrategia-ia-datos", "source": "plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy", "door": false, "tags": [], "keywords": ["latin-america", "europe", "consultation", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-06-25", "ends": "2026-08-21", "closes": "2026-08-21", "when_text": "Opened 25 June 2026, closed 7 August, reopened to 21 August 2026", "what": "Supreme Court of Justice of the province of Buenos Aires, public consultation on a draft regulation for the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence in the provincial judiciary", "where": "Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, online form", "note": "Draft published under Resolution 1719/26; it holds that a judicial decision may not be delegated to an AI system. The first contribution window closed on 7 August 2026. Resolution RP 894/26, announced 12 August, extended it to 21 August inclusive, the court saying requests to contribute continued to arrive after the window shut and that it wanted input from institutions and people interested in responsible use. Contributions go through an online form.", "url": "https://www.justicia.ar/novedades/5150/2026/08/prorroga-para-la-consulta-participativa-sobre-ia-para-la-labor-judicial", "source": "justicia.ar", "door": true, "keywords": ["latin-america", "court", "consultation", "participation", "guidelines", "transparency"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-09-20", "ends": "2026-09-24", "when_text": "20 to 24 September 2026", "what": "Caribbean Telecommunications Union ICT Week 2026, including the Conference of Ministers responsible for ICT and the 24th Strategic ICT Ministerial Seminar", "where": "French Guiana, hosted with the Collectivite Territoriale de Guyane", "note": "Theme: advancing resilience, inclusion, cybersecurity and innovation in Caribbean digital development. Programme names artificial intelligence and data governance alongside connectivity, digital government, the digital economy, workforce development and regional collaboration. Open to ministers, regulators, operators, technology companies, private sector leaders, development partners, researchers, civil society organisations and youth representatives from the Caribbean and beyond, with measures to include women, young people and people with disabilities. Registration through a linked form; no closing date published.", "url": "https://ctu.int/ctu-ict-week-2026-to-position-the-caribbean-for-global-digital-leadership/", "source": "ctu.int", "door": false, "keywords": ["caribbean", "regional-bloc", "summit", "data-sovereignty", "participation", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-11-02", "ends": "2026-11-05", "when_text": "2 to 5 November 2026", "what": "Africa Internet Governance Forum 2026", "where": "Accra, Ghana", "note": "Hosted by the Government of Ghana. The call for session proposals and speakers closed on 31 July 2026; it was addressed to policymakers, researchers, youth leaders, civil society advocates, technical experts, academics, parliamentarians, members of the judiciary and private sector representatives, as organisations, institutions, networks or individuals. Attendance and registration remain. Sits five weeks before the global Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi.", "url": "https://igf.africa/2026-session-proposals/", "source": "igf.africa", "door": false, "keywords": ["africa", "civil-society", "participation", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2027-06-21", "ends": "2027-06-22", "when_text": "21 and 22 June 2027", "what": "Geneva AI Summit 2027 now has published dates and goes on the page, reversing the 2026-08-17 finding that held it off for want of a month", "where": "Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland", "note": "Earlier runs recorded that the next state-level global AI summit had a city and a year but no month, announced by Swiss President Guy Parmelin at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on 19 February 2026. The summit site now publishes 21 and 22 June 2027 at Palexpo, organised by the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, running back to back with the ITU AI for Good Global Summit. Capacity at the core venue is stated to be limited. Three undated ways in are named: a Road to Geneva strand of pre-events opening late summer 2026 via an online form, a Call for Issues launching autumn 2026, and a call for side event proposals in early 2027.", "url": "https://genevaaisummit.swiss/", "source": "genevaaisummit.swiss", "door": false, "keywords": ["europe", "national-government", "summit", "ai-strategy", "participation", "guidelines"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2027-06-21", "ends": "2027-06-25", "when_text": "Week of 21 to 25 June 2027", "what": "AI for Good Global Summit 2027, International Telecommunication Union", "where": "Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland", "note": "Same venue and week as the state-level Geneva AI Summit 2027, which the Swiss organisers describe as running back to back with it. The two published ranges overlap: the ITU gives 21 to 25 June, the Swiss site gives 21 and 22 June for its own event, and neither publishes which days belong to which meeting. No dated call for papers, sessions or speakers posted for 2027 at the time of this scan.", "url": "https://aiforgood.itu.int/summit27/", "source": "aiforgood.itu.int", "door": false, "keywords": ["europe", "un", "standards-body", "summit", "participation", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Two open doors left off the page because they could not be pinned down: Minnesota PUC data centre comment periods and an OHCHR call on climate technologies", "where": "Minnesota, United States, and Geneva, Switzerland", "note": "Search results quoting the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission's own data centre page report comment periods on data centre electric service agreements closing 28 August 2026 and 8 September 2026, the latter for the Echo Zone LLC agreement covering Google's Pine Island facility. The commission's site returns a bot-check redirect to validate.perfdrive.com for automated readers, and no second source confirmed which docket number carries which date, so no entry was written. Separately, the UN Special Rapporteur on climate change has a call for input on technologies related to climate change open to 30 September 2026, five pages by email; ohchr.org returns HTTP 403 to automated readers and the published questions concern mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage rather than AI governance or data centres, so it was left off on scope. Both are worth a human check on the next run.", "url": "https://mn.gov/puc/activities/v-l-e-c/data-centers/", "source": "mn.gov", "door": false, "keywords": ["north-america", "global", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "environment"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-18", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Five United States data centre moratorium fights checked this run produced no future dated hearing", "where": "United States", "note": "Louisville Metro Council passed a six-month moratorium on 13 August 2026 by 24 votes to one, after a planning and zoning committee vote of 7 to 1 on 4 August. Greensboro city council, Alamance County commissioners and Yadkin County commissioners all held their public hearings on 17 August 2026, the day before this scan; Greensboro's proposal is a 120-day pause on data centres above 10 megawatts. Fayette County, Kentucky has halted approvals until 31 October 2026 with no hearing set. Otsego adopted a one-year pause on 27 July 2026. None carries a future dated hearing, so none goes on the page; the pattern of small councils pausing first and writing rules second is now visible across at least nine jurisdictions.", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-08-13/louisville-metro-council-approves-data-center-moratorium-as-new-proposal-sparks-controversy", "source": "lpm.org", "door": false, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "moratorium", "planning", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-28", "when_text": "Open now, closes 28 August 2026", "what": "Minnesota Public Utilities Commission docket 26-159, written comment on the electric service agreement between Minnesota Power and Harmony Group LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet, for a data centre at Hermantown", "where": "Minnesota, United States, through the commission's eDockets system", "note": "An electric service agreement is the contract between a rate-regulated electric utility and a customer large enough to need its own terms; in Minnesota it must be filed with the commission and opened for written comment before the commission decides. The commission says the public is invited to review the filing and submit written comments. This resolves a lead recorded on 18 August 2026 that could not be pinned down because the commission's site refuses automated reading; the commission's own data centre page confirms the docket number and the closing date.", "url": "https://mn.gov/puc/activities/v-l-e-c/data-centers/", "source": "mn.gov/puc", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "regulator", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "energy", "grid"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "Open now, closes 8 September 2026", "what": "Minnesota Public Utilities Commission docket 26-170, written comment on the electric service agreement between Xcel Energy and Echo Zone LLC, a Google subsidiary, for a data centre at Pine Island", "where": "Minnesota, United States, through the commission's eDockets system", "note": "Comments close 8 September 2026, after which the commission holds a public meeting to deliberate and decide. Two data centre electric service agreement dockets are open at once and both customers belong to the same parent company. This resolves the second half of the lead recorded on 18 August 2026.", "url": "https://mn.gov/puc/activities/v-l-e-c/data-centers/", "source": "mn.gov/puc", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "regulator", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "energy", "grid"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-08", "ends": "2026-09-08", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "8 September 2026, 6:30pm", "what": "Rockingham city council public hearing on a conditional rezoning at 316 Old Cheraw Highway for a data centre, from high-density residential to conditional light industrial", "where": "Rockingham City Hall, Richmond County, North Carolina, United States", "note": "Terra Nexus Land Fund I LLC bought the property in June 2026 and lodged the request; the city puts the project at 1.2 billion dollars. The planning board voted to back the rezoning on 13 August 2026 with residents split. Richmond County is the same county where Amazon is building a campus supported by 1,600 megawatts of diesel generation, and where a joint state air quality hearing was held on 30 July 2026.", "url": "https://www.yourdailyjournal.com/news/265544/rockingham-council-sets-public-hearing-for-proposed-data-center-rezoning", "source": "yourdailyjournal.com", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "planning", "land"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-13", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-12", "when_text": "Open now, closes 12 September 2026, 11:59pm", "what": "Ontario Ministry of Energy and Mines consultation on an assessment framework for data centres and a new electricity rate class, Environmental Registry of Ontario notice 026-0853", "where": "Ontario, Canada, through the Environmental Registry of Ontario", "note": "Posted 13 August 2026 with the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, for a thirty-day comment period. Proposes assessing data centres against three pillars: economic development, digital sovereignty and community benefits, plus a new electricity rate class with exemption criteria. Asks directly whether those three pillars are the right priorities. Comments through the registry or by email to data.centre.consultation@ontario.ca, quoting the notice number. Community benefit is framed as a test a facility must meet rather than something a company may choose to offer.", "url": "https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/026-0853", "source": "ero.ontario.ca", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "national-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "energy", "grid", "data-sovereignty"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-17", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-14", "when_text": "Open now, closes 14 September 2026", "what": "New South Wales consultation on reforming electricity network connection and cost recovery arrangements for data centres", "where": "New South Wales, Australia, written submissions", "note": "Opened 17 August 2026 on the principle that a data centre pays for the network upgrades it requires so the cost is not shifted to households and small businesses. As at July 2026, data centres seeking connections in New South Wales represented as much as 28 gigawatts of potential capacity with about 13 gigawatts in advanced discussions; 13 gigawatts is more than the state's average daily electricity demand. The government announcement gives no closing date; the window of 17 August to 14 September comes from law firm reporting. This is the closest open door to where the site is written.", "url": "https://www.energy.nsw.gov.au/news/nation-leading-framework-harness-nsw-data-centre-investment", "source": "energy.nsw.gov.au", "door": true, "keywords": ["pacific", "national-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "energy", "grid", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-11", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-26", "when_text": "Open now, hearing 26 October 2026 at 10:00am, written comments close 11:59pm Mountain time the same day", "what": "Colorado rulemaking on the Automated Decision-Making Technology Act, the revised Colorado AI Act, and the Chatbot Safety Act", "where": "1300 Broadway, Denver, Colorado, United States, and by videoconference", "note": "Proposed rules filed 11 August 2026 to implement Senate Bill 26-189 and House Bill 26-1263, covering how automated systems may be used in decisions about people including hiring and employment. Comments submitted by 4 September 2026 are considered for revisions presented at the hearing; otherwise the proposed rules stay open for comment through the hearing date. One of the few processes on the page where a person can answer a draft rule clause by clause before it binds anyone.", "url": "https://coag.gov/ai/", "source": "coag.gov", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "regulator", "ai-law", "consultation", "participation", "transparency"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-30", "when_text": "Open now, closes 30 October 2026", "what": "Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights call for inputs on child rights and safety in the digital environment", "where": "Online, submissions to OHCHR", "note": "Listed as open on the OHCHR calls for input listing with a closing date of 30 October 2026. The opening date is not given on the listing. The office's individual call pages return HTTP 403 to automated reading, so the detail recorded here comes from the listing rather than the call document; anyone intending to write should open the call page directly for the questions and page limit. The standing framework is general comment No. 25, adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2021. Recorded with that caution rather than left off, because a UN call on children and digital environments is directly in scope for Q9.", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input-listing", "source": "ohchr.org", "door": true, "keywords": ["global", "un", "consultation", "participation", "online-safety", "consent"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-09-21", "ends": "2026-09-21", "when_text": "21 September 2026, 5:00pm to 8:00pm New York time", "what": "Digital@UNGA 2026, held by the International Telecommunication Union on the eve of the general debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly", "where": "United Nations Headquarters, New York, United States", "note": "Published framing covers artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space technologies and other frontier innovations, alongside partnerships for digital transformation and youth leadership, with the Digital@UNGA awards attached. The ITU page says registration information is still to come, so there is no published way in as at this scan. Recorded with that stated rather than smoothed over.", "url": "https://www.itu.int/initiatives/digital-unga2026/event/", "source": "itu.int", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "un", "standards-body", "participation", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "event", "starts": "2026-11-03", "ends": "2026-11-05", "when_text": "3 to 5 November 2026", "what": "Africa AI Summit 2026", "where": "Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa", "note": "Convened by AiForAfrica International Inc., registered in New York, with partners including the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and NVIDIA. About 1,500 attendees expected, described as heads of state, Fortune 500 executives, institutional investors, venture capitalists and AI innovators; the chief executives of NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are listed as speakers. Entry by application through an invitation process; no call for papers, sessions or speakers published. Runs in the same week as the Africa Internet Governance Forum in Accra, which is government-hosted and opened its programme to individuals.", "url": "https://africaaisummit.org/home/home/", "source": "africaaisummit.org", "door": false, "keywords": ["africa", "industry", "summit", "funding", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-22", "ends": "2026-12-02", "when_text": "22 September, 27 October and 2 December 2026", "what": "Denton public hearings on a ninety-day data centre moratorium and development code amendments, and the adoption date", "where": "Denton, Texas, United States", "note": "Set by the council's vote of four to three on 18 August 2026. First public hearing 22 September, second 27 October, final adoption 2 December. Residents may speak at both hearings. The municipal utility warned the grid is close to capacity, which is what put the proposal in motion. Adoption of the moratorium requires a supermajority of the council, not the four votes that have carried it this far. Replaces the entry for the 18 August vote, which has moved to ahead/index.html.", "url": "https://communityimpact.com/denton/government/denton-officials-to-vote-on-public-hearings-for-data-center-moratorium-development-code-updates/", "source": "communityimpact.com", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "energy", "grid", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-18", "ends": "2026-08-18", "when_text": "18 August 2026", "what": "Denton council vote on setting hearing dates has passed and moved to ahead/index.html with its outcome", "where": "Denton, Texas, United States", "note": "Outcome: the council voted four to three to proceed with a possible ninety-day pause and with development code amendments, and the three proposed dates held. The watch logged nothing on Denton, so the outcome is recorded from reporting rather than from the site's own record.", "url": "https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-08-05/denton-moves-toward-data-center-moratorium-city-council-weighs-stricter-development-rules", "source": "keranews.org", "door": false, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "participation", "moratorium", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Two Indigenous data governance meetings surfaced in searching and both had already been held, leaving the page with one dated Indigenous-led entry", "where": "United States", "note": "The US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit, under the theme Coming Home: Indigenous Data Governance By Us For Us, was held in Tucson from 14 to 17 April 2026. The University of Kansas symposium on AI and data sovereignty across the Southern Plains was held at the Burge Union in Lawrence on 3 and 4 March 2026. A search result asserting a September 2026 summit did not survive checking against either host's own page. The only dated Indigenous-led entry left on the page is the 26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2027. That thinness is the clearest gap in this page's coverage and is worth a dedicated search method rather than a general sweep.", "url": "https://udallcenter.arizona.edu/events/indigenous-data-sovereignty-governance-summit-2026", "source": "udallcenter.arizona.edu", "door": false, "keywords": ["north-america", "indigenous", "data-sovereignty", "participation", "academia"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-19", "stamp": "13:53 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found already closed", "where": "Global", "note": "House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into risks and opportunities to the sustainability of data centres in the UK, written evidence closed 5pm 6 April 2026. Internet Governance Forum session proposals, IGF Village booths and remote hub applications all closed 31 July 2026 at 23:59 UTC. The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance submission portal is closed, with nothing published yet for the 2027 New York session; support for travel is described as open on a rolling basis through the Digital Cooperation Fund. Kenya's draft AI and emerging technologies policy closed 4 August 2026. Ghana launched a national AI strategy on 24 April 2026 with no policy published and no bill before parliament; no open consultation found. Council of Europe, OECD and G20 produced no dated AI meeting for October or November 2026.", "url": "https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9651/risks-and-opportunities-to-the-sustainability-of-data-centres-in-the-uk/", "source": "committees.parliament.uk", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "consultation", "participation", "data-centres"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-07-29", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-30", "when_text": "Open now, closes 30 September 2026", "what": "France's prudential authority opens a public consultation on algorithmic fairness in banking and insurance", "where": "France, written contributions to the ACPR", "note": "The Autorite de controle prudentiel et de resolution, which supervises French banks and insurers, published a discussion document on algorithmic fairness and put it out for public consultation until 30 September 2026. It covers transparency, accountability and explainability of automated decisions, and the technical side of auditing an algorithm, data quality and managing bias. The question it puts is how to reconcile pricing that varies with risk against treatment that is discriminatory. Those invited are insurers, banks, fintechs and insurtechs, and alongside them consumer associations and academic researchers, which is what makes it a door rather than an industry exercise. The authority intends to publish final guidance by the end of 2026. Caution recorded with the entry: acpr.banque-france.fr refuses automated reading, so the dates come from French trade reporting rather than from the authority. Reporting dated 29 July and 3 August both describe it as open; the closing date of 30 September is consistent across both.", "url": "https://acpr.banque-france.fr/fr/communiques-de-presse/lacpr-lance-une-consultation-publique-sur-lequite-algorithmique", "source": "acpr.banque-france.fr", "door": true, "keywords": ["europe", "regulator", "consultation", "participation", "transparency", "guidelines"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-08", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "8 September 2026", "what": "LaGrange calls a public hearing on a special use permit for a data centre", "where": "LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, United States", "note": "The city council called a public hearing for 8 September 2026 on a special use permit for a data centre at the Lafayette Logistics Center development off Old Hutchinson Mill Road. The planning commission recommended the permit in June with conditions: noise studies, and a hundred-foot planted buffer with a six-foot berm along Old Hutchinson Mill Road. Councillors said calling the hearing is a required step and does not indicate support for the project. LaGrange decided earlier in 2026 to handle data centres case by case through special use permits rather than write a general rule, so each application carries its own hearing; a local anti-data-centre coalition has said the ordinance behind that approach falls short.", "url": "https://www.lagrangenews.com/news/lagrange-council-calls-for-data-center-public-hearing-insisting-call-doesnt-indicate-support-6da06ff2", "source": "lagrangenews.com", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "planning", "land"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-06-24", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-21", "when_text": "Closes 21 August 2026, checked and unchanged", "what": "Buenos Aires consultation on AI in the provincial judiciary, no third extension, and the date of what follows it", "where": "Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina", "note": "Checked on 20 August 2026: no further extension has been published beyond 21 August inclusive, so the reopened window ends as stated. Two details added to the entry on this check. The original window was opened by Resolution RP 747/26 running 24 June to 7 August; Resolution RP 894/26 reopened it to 21 August. And what follows is dated: the court's Commission for the Governance and Use of Artificial Intelligence is to analyse the contributions received and submit a final report to the Supreme Court in September 2026. That report is the checkable outcome of this door.", "url": "https://www.justicia.ar/novedades/5150/2026/08/prorroga-para-la-consulta-participativa-sobre-ia-para-la-labor-judicial", "source": "justicia.ar", "door": true, "keywords": ["latin-america", "court", "consultation", "participation", "guidelines", "transparency"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-09-03", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-17", "when_text": "3 September and 17 September 2026", "what": "Mexico's regional forums on children, platforms and AI: the first of the three has been held", "where": "Chiapas, then Guerrero, Mexico", "note": "The north-east forum was held at Nuevo Leon on 19 August 2026 as announced. The entry stays on the page with the two that remain: the south and south-east at Chiapas on 3 September and the south and centre at Guerrero on 17 September. The entry's start date moves from 2026-08-19 to 2026-09-03 and its day list drops the date now past. The government describes three earlier forums, in the metropolitan region, the north-west and the centre-west, as having drawn twenty thousand people. What the forums produce is intended to reach the Congress of the Union as a bill on children's and adolescents' use of digital platforms and artificial intelligence.", "url": "https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2026/7/21/arranca-el-debate-para-regular-plataformas-digitales-ia-y-redes-sociales-para-menores-376516.html", "source": "proceso.com.mx", "door": false, "keywords": ["latin-america", "national-government", "consultation", "participation", "online-safety"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-19", "ends": "2026-08-19", "when_text": "Held 19 August 2026, 8:00am", "what": "Texas House State Affairs Committee hearing on data centres has been held and the entry moves to what already came", "where": "Room JHR 140, Austin, Texas, United States", "note": "The committee met under Representative Ken King on two interim charges: data centre development in Texas, and the regulatory and planning process behind proposed 765-kilovolt transmission lines. Public testimony was limited to two minutes per witness, with electronic comments accepted as an alternative to travelling to Austin. No outcome could be recorded at the time of the move: the hearing ended a few hours earlier in Texas time and nothing had been published about what was said. An interim hearing feeds a committee report later rather than deciding on the day, so that report is what to hold this against. Published beforehand and worth testing the report against: Representative Paul Dyson said constituents along the proposed transmission routes felt the process had been rushed, and named as a priority that data centre companies rather than everyday Texans cover the added costs to the grid.", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/schedules/pdf/C4502026081908001.PDF", "source": "capitol.texas.gov", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "parliament", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "water", "energy", "grid"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Four Indigenous-led processes checked on the named gap, and all four are past", "where": "Global", "note": "Following yesterday's finding that the page carries only one dated Indigenous-led entry, four more were checked and none qualified. The Global Indigenous Data Alliance held its IDSov and AI workshop at COLPOS, Texcoco, Mexico from 25 to 27 February 2026. The UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples held its 19th session at the Palais des Nations, Geneva from 13 to 17 July 2026, including a panel on artificial intelligence at which delegates called for data centre projects to comply with free, prior and informed consent; EMRIP's call for inputs on the right of Indigenous Peoples to data was a 2025 call and the study has been delivered. Aotearoa's Digital Trust Hui Taumata, opening with a joint keynote on tikanga-informed digital governance and Maori data sovereignty, was held at Te Papa, Wellington on 11 August 2026, and registration of interest for 2027 is open with no date set. The AIATSIS Summit was held on the Gold Coast from 1 to 5 June 2026. Method note for the next run: these are annual cycles whose calls open months ahead, so the useful search is for the 2027 calls rather than for 2026 events. GIDA, Te Mana Raraunga, Maiam nayri Wingara, the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance and the EMRIP calls-for-input listing are the five pages worth checking directly.", "url": "https://www.gida-global.org/gidaidsovaiworkshop", "source": "gida-global.org", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "indigenous", "data-sovereignty", "participation", "consent"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found shut, undated or stale", "where": "Global", "note": "Australia's AI Action Plan consultation page is the 2020 one and closed 27 November 2020; the National AI Plan of December 2025 superseded it and no successor consultation is open. The European Commission's consultation on draft transparency guidelines closed 3 June 2026 and the targeted consultation on high-risk classification closed 23 July 2026. Ireland's pre-legislative scrutiny of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 closed 5:30pm 13 April 2026. South Africa's draft national AI policy, gazetted 10 April with comments to 10 June, was withdrawn on 26 April 2026 after fabricated sources were found in its reference list. Indonesia's consultation on its national AI roadmap and ethics guidelines closed 22 August 2025. New Zealand's Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment lists no open AI consultation. The ITU has not opened the WSIS Forum 2027 open consultation process; the 2026 one closed 31 March 2026. Brazil's PL 2338/2023 passed the Senate in December 2024 and awaits a Chamber of Deputies vote with no date published. Three United States items were past or undated: Negaunee, Michigan heard its data centre ordinance 156 on 13 August; Greensboro, North Carolina heard its proposed 120-day moratorium on 17 August; Louisville, Kentucky adopted a six-month moratorium on 13 August by 24 votes to 1, with the comprehensive zoning rules that follow it not yet scheduled. Michigan Public Service Commission docket U-22061, DTE's large load tariff for customers over 100 megawatts, accepts written public comment by email or post with no published closing date, so it fails the date test.", "url": "https://www.industry.gov.au/news/australias-ai-action-plan-have-your-say", "source": "industry.gov.au", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "consultation", "participation", "data-centres", "ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-20", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Nothing dropped under the defence exclusion this run", "where": "Global", "note": "No event or consultation was excluded under the standing rule against primarily military or defence items. The Texas hearing's published charges lead with national security alongside global competitiveness, but the subject of the charge is civilian data centre development and grid planning, so it stayed on the page and has now moved to the record with that framing noted.", "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/schedules/pdf/C4502026081908001.PDF", "source": "capitol.texas.gov", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-07-08", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-30", "when_text": "Open now, closes 30 October 2026, 23:59 CET", "what": "European Data Protection Board consultation on draft Guidelines 03/2026 on web scraping in the context of generative AI", "where": "European Union, through the board's online form", "note": "Adopted 7 July 2026 and opened for public consultation on 8 July, running to 30 October 2026 at 23:59 CET. The guidelines address the GDPR implications of using automated tools to extract personal data from publicly reachable web sources to develop and train generative AI models, covering a private entity scraping external sources directly, contracting another party to scrape, or obtaining already scraped datasets from a data broker. The board names individuals among those who may contribute, alongside academic institutions, businesses, consumer organisations, non-government organisations, public authorities and professional associations. Contributions are published on the board's website, with an option to withhold personal data. The reach is the reason this is the widest door currently on the page: the guidelines are what the national data protection authorities of every member state will read from afterwards.", "url": "https://www.edpb.europa.eu/public-consultations/guidelines-032026-on-web-scraping-in-the-context-of-generative-ai_en", "source": "edpb.europa.eu", "door": true, "keywords": ["europe", "regulator", "consultation", "participation", "data-sovereignty", "consent", "transparency"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-10", "ends": "2026-09-17", "closes": "2026-09-17", "when_text": "10 and 17 September 2026, both 6:00pm Eastern", "what": "Georgetown-Scott County Planning Commission meetings on a draft data centre ordinance, with a written feedback portal alongside", "where": "Great Crossing High School auditorium, 120 Betsy Way, Georgetown, Kentucky, United States", "note": "The commission placed a six-month stop on data centres earlier in 2026 and has published the draft ordinance intended to replace it. The regular commission meeting of 10 September and a special meeting on 17 September given over to data centres are both at the school auditorium at 6pm Eastern, moved out of the usual chamber because a large turnout is expected. The draft requires a setback of at least 500 feet from a property line, rising to 1,000 feet where the adjoining use is a residence, a church or farmland, mandates closed-loop water cooling, and requires a developer to demonstrate its power demand will not raise utility costs for residents. A community feedback portal and the draft are posted on gscplanning.com. No closing date for the portal has been published, which is recorded here because the calendar and the entry both rely on the two meeting dates as the fixed points.", "url": "https://www.gscplanning.com/", "source": "gscplanning.com, wkyt.com", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "water", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-10-06", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-06", "when_text": "6 October 2026, 5:30pm", "what": "Lexington Urban County Council special Committee of the Whole meeting to gather public input on data centre regulations", "where": "Council Chambers, Government Center, 200 East Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky, United States", "note": "The council voted on 9 June 2026 for a moratorium pausing data centre permits, development plans and zone changes across Fayette County until 31 October, and initiated a zoning ordinance text amendment. A planning commission public hearing on the draft language was held on 30 July 2026 at 1:30pm and drew hours of public comment; planners recommended approval and sent the recommendation to council in mid-August. The city's own engagement page states the 6 October special Committee of the Whole meeting is to gather public input. The timing is the point worth holding: the moratorium expires on 31 October, three weeks after this sitting. Written comment may also be sent to PlanningMailbox@lexingtonky.gov and CouncilMembers-Email@LexingtonKY.gov.", "url": "https://engage.lexingtonky.gov/DataCenters", "source": "engage.lexingtonky.gov", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-30", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "30 September 2026", "what": "New South Wales Legislative Council Public Accountability and Works Committee report on data centres is due", "where": "Parliament House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "note": "The inquiry was established on 29 January 2026 and is chaired by Abigail Boyd, with seven members of the Legislative Council. Its terms cover the planning frameworks enabling data centre development, electricity demand and grid impacts including on emissions reduction targets, water usage, and effects on the local environment and community. Submissions closed on 27 March 2026 and hearings were held at Parliament House on 1, 8 and 22 May 2026. The report is due by 30 September 2026. This is not a door: it is a dated outcome to hold the process to. It is on the page because three separate Australian processes are examining data centres at once, and only two are still receiving input: the federal Senate inquiry closing 1 September and the NSW network connection consultation closing 14 September.", "url": "https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3169", "source": "parliament.nsw.gov.au, ashurst.com for the reporting date", "door": false, "keywords": ["pacific", "parliament", "data-centres", "water", "energy", "grid", "planning", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "move", "starts": "2026-08-18", "ends": "2026-08-20", "closes": "", "when_text": "Held 18 to 20 August 2026", "what": "Cameroon Internet Governance Forum 2026 moved from Ahead to what already came", "where": "Palais des Congres, Yaounde, Cameroon", "note": "The forum closed on 20 August 2026 and the entry moved to ahead/index.html on 21 August, wording kept. No outcome has been published. What it was asked to produce is on the record and is the fair test: a national round table of stakeholders was tasked with developing a roadmap for inclusive, coordinated and sustainable internet governance in Cameroon, with recommendations expected on interoperability, data governance, cybersecurity and public digital infrastructures, plus a follow-up mechanism. The final day, 20 August, examined Cameroon's contribution to African and international internet governance processes, which gives a second checkable thread: whether anything from Yaounde surfaces at the Africa Internet Governance Forum in Accra from 2 to 5 November or at the global forum in Nairobi from 14 to 18 December. The watch has logged nothing on Cameroon.", "url": "https://www.digitalbusiness.africa/gouvernance-de-linternet-cameroun-le-fgi-2026-veut-faire-de-la-donnee-le-socle-des-infrastructures-publiques-numeriques/", "source": "digitalbusiness.africa, afriqueitnews.com", "door": false, "keywords": ["africa", "national-government", "civil-society", "participation", "data-sovereignty", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Grayslake postponed its public comment session on a data centre campus on safety grounds, with no new date", "where": "Grayslake, Lake County, Illinois, United States", "note": "The village had scheduled a one-time extended public comment session on the already approved T5 data centre campus, a 472-acre project that Lake County residents sued to block on 7 August 2026. The session was postponed on 20 August after the planned venue, the University Center of Lake County, withdrew. The village said recent social media activity and other information had raised safety concerns and that area law enforcement agencies had expressed similar concerns. No rescheduled date has been published, so the item fails the second test on the ahead page, which requires a real date from the source. It is recorded here rather than dropped because a public comment session called off on safety grounds is directly material to Q9, which asks how the many are actually asked. To be picked up when a date is published.", "url": "https://www.dailyherald.com/20260818/local-politics/grayslake-schedules-extended-comment-session-on-controversial-data-center-plan/", "source": "dailyherald.com, patch.com, lakemchenryscanner.com", "door": false, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "planning"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Indigenous-led processes checked this run, and the first forward-looking one found", "where": "Global", "note": "One item is newly worth naming. The Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance has announced a Fall 2026 Indigenous Data Exchange webinar series, weekly on Wednesdays at 2pm Pacific via Zoom, on advancing Indigenous data sovereignty and governance. No dates or registration details have been published yet, so it fails the second test, but it is the first forward-looking Indigenous-led process this routine has found rather than a past one, and it should be rechecked each run. The collaboratory's site refuses automated reading and returned HTTP 403, so this comes from search listings rather than the source page. Others checked and found past: the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit, Coming Home: Indigenous Data Governance By Us For Us, held in Tucson from 14 to 17 April 2026 with a plenary panel on Indigenous data governance considerations for artificial intelligence, its call for abstracts closed with decisions announced 16 January 2026; the AI and Data Sovereignty Across the Southern Plains symposium at the University of Kansas on 3 and 4 March 2026; and a NISO webinar on data ownership and Indigenous sovereignty covering the tension between FAIR and CARE principles, held 8 October 2025. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2027 remains the only dated Indigenous-led entry on the page.", "url": "https://indigenousdatalab.org/", "source": "indigenousdatalab.org listings, usindigenousdatanetwork.org, calendar.ku.edu", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "indigenous", "data-sovereignty", "participation", "capacity-building"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found shut, stale or already decided", "where": "Global", "note": "Malaysia: the National AI Office, under the Ministry of Digital, ran a consultation on a proposed AI Governance Bill through the Unified Public Consultation platform from 10 July to 1 August 2026, drawing more than sixty public comments from organisations, academics, civil society and individuals, with submissions by form, platform comment or email to policy@ai.gov.my. Found six days after it shut; the UPC platform at upc.mpc.gov.my should be checked every run from now on, because it is exactly the kind of portal this page exists to catch. Kenya: the State Department for ICT and Digital Economy released a draft national AI policy on 28 July 2026 and closed comment on 4 August. United States: the Federal Trade Commission's proposed policy statement on the suppression of accuracy in AI systems, issued under Executive Order 14365, took comment at regulations.gov docket FTC-2026-0859 until 31 July 2026. Uruguay: the consultation on the Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial 2024-2030 that a search surfaced as current in fact ran 15 September to 20 October 2024 and is closed; the live Uruguayan door remains the separate consultation on children and adolescents in digital environments, closing 10 September 2026. United Kingdom: the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare took evidence from 18 December 2025 to 2 February 2026, with recommendations expected over summer 2026; the AI Growth Lab call for evidence closed 7 January 2026. India: MeitY finalised the India AI Governance Guidelines in November 2025 and no successor consultation is open. Canada: the independent People's Consultation on AI run by Citizen Lab researchers closed 15 March 2026. Washington State: Skagit County took comment on permanent data centre rules until 4:30pm on 20 August 2026, one day before this scan. Arizona: Tucson City Council approved regulations on large-scale data centres on 5 August 2026 after public meetings on 19 February, 4 March and 5 March. Council of Europe: the HUDERIA methodology was adopted in 2025 and the model approved in 2026, with no open consultation or dated conference published. European Commission: no new AI call for evidence is open on the Have Your Say portal.", "url": "https://upc.mpc.gov.my/view-consultation/264", "source": "upc.mpc.gov.my, techweez.com, ftc.gov, plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy, gov.uk, goskagit.com, azluminaria.org", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "consultation", "participation", "ai-law", "ai-strategy"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-21", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Nothing dropped under the defence exclusion this run, and one scope judgement recorded", "where": "Global", "note": "No event or consultation was excluded under the standing rule against primarily military or defence items. One scope judgement was made and is recorded so a human can check it: several commercial AI governance conferences run by vendors and event companies surfaced with dates, places and registration open, including the AI Gov World Conference in Las Vegas from 12 to 14 October 2026, the 4th Annual AI Regulation Summit in London on 1 October 2026, and the Public Service AI Summit in Washington on 17 November 2026. These were left off the page. They pass the three tests on their face, but the scope set in the routine is AI governance, policy and law as convened by the bodies listed there, and none of these carries an open door: entry is by paid ticket and there is no published process for putting something in writing and having it counted. Recording the call here rather than silently omitting them.", "url": "", "source": "aiworldconference.ai, cityandfinancialglobal.com, aicenterforgovernment.org", "door": false, "keywords": ["global", "industry", "summit", "participation"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-07-02", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-27", "when_text": "Open now, closes 27 August 2026", "what": "European Commission feedback window on the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act", "where": "European Union, through the Commission's Have your say portal", "note": "The Cloud and AI Development Act is a proposed regulation to expand cloud and data centre capacity inside the European Union, covering data centre deployment, sovereignty requirements and public procurement. The proposal (COM/2026/502 final) is dated 3 June 2026 in the EUR-Lex header and was advanced in early July. The Commission's stated audience for feedback includes data centre operators, cloud and edge providers, AI developers, business users, public administrations, financial institutions and investors, consumer organisations, academia, business associations and citizens. Two cautions recorded with the entry: the window of 2 July to 27 August comes from legal reporting (Hunton, and a second regulatory tracker), because the Commission's own consultation and Have your say pages returned nothing readable to this scan; and the earlier call for evidence that shaped the proposal ran 9 April to 3 July 2025 and is closed, so what is open now is comment on an existing text.", "source": "digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu; eur-lex.europa.eu; hunton.com", "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-and-ai-development-act", "keywords": ["europe", "regulator", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "energy", "environment", "data-sovereignty"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-31", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-31", "when_text": "Closes 31 August 2026", "what": "UNESCO and AI-Lab/CBPF call for remote access to AI and high-performance computing infrastructure", "where": "Online, on infrastructure at the Brazilian Centre for Physics Research (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", "note": "Applications are open to master's and doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Ukraine, and Small Island Developing States, which is the category the Pacific island countries fall in. Applicants need a defined research project and working English. Recorded scope judgement: this is a research-access programme rather than a governance process, and no Q9 or Q10 chip was given. It was placed on the page rather than held off because it is a dated, located, published window in which a person far from this equipment can ask for a share of it and be counted, and because the page's data centre entries are about where machines are built while this is about who may use one. A human can check that call.", "source": "unesco.org", "url": "https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-and-ai-lab/cbpfs-call-remote-access-artificial-intelligence-infrastructure", "keywords": ["latin-america", "un", "capacity-building", "global-south", "participation"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-14", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "14 September 2026", "what": "St Louis County planning commission executive meeting on revised draft data centre regulations", "where": "St Louis County, Missouri, United States", "note": "The county planning department held a public hearing on draft data centre regulations on 10 August 2026, at which close to twenty residents spoke and most called for a full moratorium rather than rules. The department is scheduled to present updated recommendations to the planning commission's executive meeting on 14 September; if the commission approves them they go to the St Louis County Council, which holds final authority over the zoning changes. The draft bars data centres from residential areas, parks and floodplains, confines them to certain business and industrial zones, and sorts facilities into four tiers from micro to major with the largest receiving the most scrutiny. No data centre is currently proposed in unincorporated St Louis County.", "source": "stlpr.org; firstalert4.com", "url": "https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-08-11/we-dont-want-them-st-louis-county-residents-push-back-on-zoning-rules-data-center-projects", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "planning", "land", "participation", "moratorium"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2027-01", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "January 2027, exact date not yet set", "what": "South Africa to reopen public comment on a revised national artificial intelligence policy", "where": "South Africa, written comment", "note": "The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies published a draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy on 10 April 2026 with a sixty-day public comment window. The draft was withdrawn on 12 June 2026 because it contained references to non-existent sources, indicating AI was used in its generation without checking. Reporting on 26 May 2026 said the revised policy would go to Cabinet by November 2026 and public comment would be invited from January 2027. Month with no day, and no notice has been published; recorded as such on the page. The strict date parser behind the calendar skips month-only entries, so this one is deliberately carried in the list rather than marked on a day.", "source": "polity.org.za; michalsons.com", "url": "https://www.polity.org.za/article/south-africa-targets-january-2027-for-revised-ai-policy-after-earlier-withdrawal-2026-05-26", "keywords": ["africa", "national-government", "consultation", "participation", "ai-strategy"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-06-25", "ends": "2026-08-21", "closes": "2026-08-21", "when_text": "Closed 21 August 2026", "what": "Buenos Aires province judicial AI consultation closed and moved to 'what already came'", "where": "Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina", "note": "The window shut on 21 August 2026 inclusive, the day before this run. Moved from ahead.html to ahead/index.html with a 'what came of it' note. Nothing has been published about how many contributions arrived or from whom. The dated next step is that the court's commission on the governance and use of artificial intelligence is to analyse the input and give the Supreme Court a final report in September 2026. Two checkable things recorded: whether that report appears in September, and whether the clause holding that a judicial decision may not be delegated to an AI system survives into the adopted regulation. The watch has logged nothing on Buenos Aires.", "source": "justicia.ar; infobae.com", "url": "https://www.justicia.ar/novedades/5150/2026/08/prorroga-para-la-consulta-participativa-sobre-ia-para-la-labor-judicial", "keywords": ["latin-america", "court", "consultation", "participation", "guidelines", "transparency"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-11-09", "ends": "2026-11-27", "closes": "", "when_text": "9 to 27 November 2026", "what": "ITU Plenipotentiary Conference entry updated: it now carries the decision on an ITU area office in the Pacific", "where": "Doha, Qatar", "note": "No change to the dates or venue. The entry text was extended after this run found that Pacific Forum foreign ministers supported the establishment of an ITU Area Office in the Pacific and encouraged consideration of the needs of the Smaller Island States, that the ITU Council had already decided to strengthen ITU presence in the Pacific and asked the secretariat to proceed with detailed planning, and that the final decision on options for that presence is expected at PP-26 in Doha. Keyword 'pacific' added to the entry.", "source": "pina.com.fj; islandsbusiness.com; pp.itu.int", "url": "https://pina.com.fj/2026/08/14/pacific-ministers-back-ai-rules-and-safer-digital-spaces-as-connectivity-expands/", "keywords": ["middle-east", "un", "standards-body", "global", "guidelines", "pacific"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Salem, Oregon: data centre moratorium hearing estimated for 21 September 2026 but not fixed", "where": "Loucks Auditorium, Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St SE, Salem, Oregon, United States", "note": "Salem City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting on 3 August 2026 to move forward with a moratorium on data centre development, after opposition to a proposed Verrus project. Oregon law requires 45 days' notice to the Department of Land Conservation and Development, a public hearing and formal findings before a moratorium can be adopted. City Attorney Dan Atchison said staff expected to send the notice by 10 August, putting the earliest hearing at the second September council meeting, 21 September, and that the schedule remains subject to change. That is an estimate rather than a set date, so it fails the second test and is not an entry. First thing to check on the next run.", "source": "salembusinessjournal.org; salemreporter.com", "url": "https://salembusinessjournal.org/2026/08/04/salem-data-center-moratorium/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "moratorium", "participation", "planning"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Pottawatomie County, Kansas: further data centre meetings expected, none dated", "where": "Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States", "note": "The county planning commission held a public hearing on proposed Data Center Overlay District regulations on 20 August 2026 at St Bernard's Catholic Church Parish Hall in Wamego, with 33 speakers and roughly 125 to 150 people attending; residents asked for a moratorium. County planner Bridget Snow said the commission expects at least one and likely several further meetings to discuss and possibly amend the draft before recommending to the board of county commissioners. The proposed regulations were published on 23 June 2026 after landowners near Emmett were approached by Atlanta-based Beltline. No further meeting has been dated, so this is not an entry.", "source": "wibw.com; pottcounty.org; 1350kman.com", "url": "https://www.pottcounty.org/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/647", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "planning", "participation", "moratorium"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Grayslake, Illinois: cancelled public comment session still has no new date", "where": "Grayslake, Lake County, Illinois, United States", "note": "Carried forward from the run of 21 August 2026 and rechecked. The village announced a one-off extended public comment session on the approved data centre campus and cancelled it on 20 August after the University Center of Lake County withdrew as venue, citing safety concerns over violent social media posts. Officials have not announced a new date or location. Residents have separately sued to stop the project over closed-door negotiations. Fails the second test, so it stays a finding, but a public comment session called off on safety grounds is Q9 in an uncomfortable form and should be picked up when a date appears.", "source": "lakemchenryscanner.com; nbcchicago.com; dailyherald.com", "url": "https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/08/20/village-of-grayslake-announces-special-session-for-public-to-discuss-data-center-then-cancels-it-citing-social-media-threats/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "participation", "consultation", "planning"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "New York Responsible Data Center Development Act passed both houses and awaits the Governor, with no dated step to carry", "where": "New York State, United States", "note": "S10642/A11560 passed the Senate 44 to 16 and the Assembly 102 to 39 on 4 June 2026. Governor Hochul has not stated a position and her office has said she will review it. No signing deadline is published, so there is no date for this page. The dated obligations all run from the signature if it comes: an environmental impact report no later than 18 months after the Act becomes law, a rate classification by the Public Service Commission by 2030, renewable procurement thresholds for facilities of 5MW or more at one third by 2030, two thirds by 2035 and 90 per cent by 2040, and a requirement that a developer hold an in-person hearing with at least 30 days' notice before a permit issues. That last one is a standing open door written into law and worth watching for.", "source": "harrisbeachmurtha.com", "url": "https://www.harrisbeachmurtha.com/insights/new-york-state-legislature-passes-first-in-the-nation-data-center-moratorium/", "keywords": ["north-america", "parliament", "data-centres", "ai-law", "moratorium", "energy", "environment", "participation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Indigenous-led dated processes: the gap did not close this run", "where": "Global", "note": "Checked and found past, undated or out of scope. The Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance has still published no dates for the Fall 2026 Indigenous Data Exchange webinar series announced as weekly on Wednesdays; its own site would not open to this scan. The Australian Research Data Commons ran an Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass at Adelaide University on Kaurna Country on 18 and 19 June 2026; it sold out, its waitlist filled, and it does not list artificial intelligence among its topics. The U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit was held in Tucson from 14 to 17 April 2026. The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has one call for input on the record for this cycle, on the rights of Indigenous Peoples in conflict and post-conflict situations, which closed on 31 January 2026. The Global Indigenous Studies Network conference on 13 to 15 November 2026 is virtual and dated but was left off as an academic conference without a published AI or data governance strand. The 26th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2027 remains the only dated Indigenous-led entry on the page.", "source": "indigenousdatalab.org; ardc.edu.au; ohchr.org; indigenous.indiana.edu", "url": "https://ardc.edu.au/event/indigenous-data-governance-masterclass-2026/", "keywords": ["global", "indigenous", "data-sovereignty", "participation", "consultation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-22", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Nothing dropped under the defence exclusion this run", "where": "Global", "note": "No event or consultation was excluded under the standing rule against primarily military or defence items. Two scope judgements were made and are recorded so a human can check them. Commercial AI conferences run by vendors and event companies were again left off, on the basis that the page's scope is governance processes rather than paid industry events. And the UNESCO and AI-Lab/CBPF call for remote access to computing infrastructure was put on the page even though it is a research-access programme rather than a governance process, with the entry saying so plainly and carrying no question chip.", "source": "", "url": "", "keywords": ["global"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-25", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "25 August 2026, 6:30pm", "what": "Piedmont City Council vote on rezoning about 630 acres for the Project Open Sky data campus", "where": "Piedmont Veterans Center, Piedmont, Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States", "note": "Cloverleaf Infrastructure of Houston is proposing a 630-acre data campus, Project Open Sky. The city planning commission recommended the planned unit development application be denied pending further information, at a meeting that drew dozens of residents. An earlier council vote on the rezoning was delayed. The council is scheduled to consider it on Monday 25 August 2026 at 6:30pm at the Piedmont Veterans Center. Residents are gathering signatures on three citizen initiative petitions aimed at blocking the project or requiring a public vote, and the developer has secured an option on an alternate site.", "source": "news9.com; okcfox.com; kfor.com", "url": "https://okcfox.com/news/local/piedmont-residents-petition-data-center-as-developer-secures-alternate-site-option", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "planning", "land", "participation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-25", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "25 and 27 August 2026", "what": "Austin City Council work session on data centre regulation, and possible start of Land Development Code amendments", "where": "Austin, Texas, United States", "note": "Austin councillors, including Mayor Kirk Watson, asked staff in mid-May 2026 for a framework for managing large-load data centres. A memo from Austin Planning, Austin Energy and Austin Water returned the first recommendations, including new land uses for higher-impact data centres including hyperscale facilities, covering siting, water efficiency, noise and lighting. A council work session is set for 25 August 2026 and reporting puts possible council action to begin amending the Land Development Code on 27 August 2026. Whether public comment is taken depends on which meeting is which, so the agendas are the thing to read.", "source": "kxan.com; strisker.com weekly briefing 17 to 20 August 2026", "url": "https://www.kxan.com/news/city-of-austin-proposes-regulating-data-center-development/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "planning", "water", "energy", "participation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-27", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-27", "when_text": "27 August 2026, 6:00pm", "what": "Elkhart City Council special meeting: public comment and final vote on a one-year data centre and battery storage moratorium", "where": "Elkhart, Indiana, United States", "note": "The city council voted unanimously in mid-August 2026 to advance the proposed moratorium to a second reading, and set a special meeting for 27 August 2026 at 6pm to hear public comment and hold the final vote. The moratorium would stop the city accepting and processing new applications for large data centres and battery energy storage facilities, while allowing completed applications and existing approvals to proceed. It would run until the city completes its review and the council ends it, or 31 December 2027, whichever comes first. The city says it will examine electrical capacity, water use, public safety, traffic, noise and environmental impacts, along with siting, setbacks and noise protection.", "source": "wndu.com; wvpe.org; abc57.com", "url": "https://www.wndu.com/2026/08/18/elkhart-council-advances-data-center-battery-storage-moratorium/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "water", "energy", "planning"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-17", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-17", "when_text": "Open now, closes 17 September 2026, 7:00pm Central", "what": "Pottawatomie County written comment on the draft data centre overlay district, open until the 17 September planning commission meeting", "where": "Sunflower Room, 612 East Campbell Street, Westmoreland, Kansas, United States, and in writing", "note": "The Pottawatomie County Planning Commission heard 33 speakers on its draft data centre overlay district at St Bernard's Catholic Church parish hall in Wamego on 20 August 2026. County planner Bridget Snow said afterwards that no further public comment meetings on the draft will be held, but that written comments remain open until the commission's next meeting, at 7pm on Thursday 17 September 2026 in the Sunflower Room at Westmoreland. Comments may be made through the county's online form, by email to zoning@pottcounty.org, or by post to the planning and zoning office. The planner expects at least one and likely several meetings of commission discussion after that, with changes possible in response to comments. This supersedes the 2026-08-22 finding that the further meetings had no dates.", "source": "wibw.com; pottcounty.org calendar; themercury.com", "url": "https://www.wibw.com/2026/08/21/pottawatomie-county-plans-ahead-data-center-demands/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "planning", "land", "moratorium"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "September 2026, exact date not yet set", "what": "Lincolnton City Council resumes its public hearing on a one-year data centre moratorium", "where": "Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States", "note": "The city council voted three to one on 6 August 2026 to postpone by a month a planning department recommendation for a one-year moratorium on data centres, and to resume the public hearing in September 2026. Mark Frederick, a land use attorney with Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein acting for Heathcote Capital LLC, which proposes a data centre at 232 Car Farm Road, asked the council to vote the moratorium down; the reporting puts the private investment at around 600 million dollars and city tax revenue at 2.2 million. Kevin Demeny, Mark Johnson and Jill Tipton voted to delay, Roby Jetton against. Only the month has been published, so the entry carries no day and the calendar marks none.", "source": "lincolntimesnews.com", "url": "https://www.lincolntimesnews.com/news/city-delays-decision-on-data-center-option/article_4224fdfe-9462-41f4-9d8b-6f340833fa72.html", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "planning", "land"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-21", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-21", "when_text": "21 September 2026", "what": "Spartanburg County Council third and final reading of a twelve-month countywide data centre moratorium", "where": "Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States", "note": "The county council delayed third reading at its meeting on 17 August 2026, after residents filled the chamber and spoke against the NorthMark project during public comment, and moved it to the council meeting on 21 September 2026. Councilmember Monier Abusaft said the delay allows the county to hold another public safety committee meeting first, at which the public is invited to give input alongside experts and other organisations; that committee meeting has no published date. If adopted, the moratorium would pause new data centre development countywide for one year.", "source": "foxcarolina.com; wspa.com; postandcourier.com", "url": "https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/08/18/spartanburg-county-delays-vote-data-center-moratorium/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "moratorium", "planning"], "door": true}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-22", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "22 September 2026", "what": "St Joseph County Council vote on expanding the AM General tax increment financing district to include the Microsoft data centre at Granger", "where": "St Joseph County, Indiana, United States", "note": "The vote was postponed to 22 September 2026. The expansion would freeze property tax revenue in the district at current levels and capture future growth for spending inside it, allowing the county to borrow up to four million dollars. The delay was made to give officials and the public more time to review the proposal. Both candidates for the county council seat have called for a two-year halt on new data centres in the county.", "source": "wndu.com; wsbt.com; wvpe.org; thecooldown.com", "url": "https://www.wndu.com/2026/08/18/microsoft-data-center-granger-could-join-expanded-tif-district/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "funding", "participation", "planning"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Minnesota dockets 26-159 and 26-170 and the Hendersonville hearing verified unchanged", "where": "Minnesota and North Carolina, United States", "note": "Checked against the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission's own data centre page: docket 26-159, Minnesota Power and Harmony Group LLC at Hermantown, filed 26 March 2026, comments close 28 August 2026; docket 26-170, Xcel Energy and Echo Zone LLC at Pine Island, filed 14 April 2026, comments close 8 September 2026. Both are followed by a commission public meeting to deliberate and decide, with no date published for either. The Hendersonville City Council public hearing on a data centre moratorium of up to twelve months is confirmed for 3 September 2026. No changes to any of the three.", "source": "mn.gov/puc; ncdatacenters.substack.com; carolinapublicpress.org", "url": "https://mn.gov/puc/activities/v-l-e-c/data-centers/", "keywords": ["north-america", "regulator", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "energy", "grid"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "European Cloud and AI Development Act feedback window dates confirmed in a second source", "where": "European Union", "note": "The window of 2 July to 27 August 2026 for feedback on the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act was confirmed by a second independent source this run. Neither source is the European Commission itself, whose consultation pages continue to refuse automated reading, so the entry keeps its caution telling anyone intending to write to read the period off the Have your say portal first.", "source": "regulations.ai; hunton.com", "url": "https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-EU-NA-RE2026X-2026", "keywords": ["europe", "regulator", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "data-sovereignty"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Indigenous-led dated processes: the Fall 2026 IDX webinar series has a shape but still no dates", "where": "Online, United States", "note": "The Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance has published that its Fall 2026 Indigenous Data Exchange webinar series will run weekly on Wednesdays at 2pm United States Pacific time, hosted with the Indigelab Network and the ENRICH hub, with more details to come. No start date and no session dates are published, so it still fails the second test. Both indigenousdatalab.org and usindigenousdatanetwork.org return HTTP 403 to automated reading, so this scan could get no further than search snippets; a person opening either page in a browser may find more. The U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit was held in Tucson on 14 to 17 April 2026 and has passed. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2027 remains the only dated Indigenous-led entry on the page.", "source": "indigenousdatalab.org; usindigenousdatanetwork.org", "url": "https://indigenousdatalab.org/indigenous-data-exchange/", "keywords": ["global", "indigenous", "data-sovereignty", "participation", "capacity-building"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Cumberland County, North Carolina: an ordinance timeline is reported but no exact dates could be confirmed", "where": "Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States", "note": "Cumberland County commissioners adopted a six-month data centre moratorium on 15 June 2026. Search results describe a published county timeline putting the draft ordinance release and town hall and community meetings in September 2026, and a joint planning board public hearing and recommendation in October 2026. The county's own data centre page returns HTTP 403 to automated reading and the local outlet carrying the timeline also refuses, so no exact days could be verified. Held here rather than written onto the page with dates it may not have. Worth a second look next run.", "source": "cumberlandcountync.gov; cityviewnc.com; abc11.com", "url": "https://www.cumberlandcountync.gov/departments/planning-group/planning-and-inspections/datacenter", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "moratorium", "planning"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Louisville, Kentucky: six-month moratorium passed, draft regulations promised for public input with no date", "where": "Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States", "note": "Metro Council voted 24 to 1 on 13 August 2026 for a six-month moratorium on new data centre construction, running until the council approves comprehensive zoning rules. It was amended in the meeting to cover conversion of existing buildings as well. The Office of Planning says it is researching and gathering community feedback and drafting regulations, and that the drafts will be shared for public input before a final council vote. No date has been published for that input window, so there is nothing to put on the page yet.", "source": "lpm.org; wbko.com; louisvilleky.gov", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-08-13/louisville-metro-council-approves-data-center-moratorium-as-new-proposal-sparks-controversy", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "moratorium", "consultation", "planning"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Salem and Grayslake rechecked: both still undated", "where": "Salem, Oregon and Grayslake, Illinois, United States", "note": "Salem, Oregon: nothing further published since the 2026-08-22 finding. The city attorney's estimate of the second September council meeting, 21 September 2026, remains an estimate and the schedule remains subject to change. Grayslake, Illinois: no new date or location has been announced for the extended public comment session cancelled on 20 August 2026 after the University Center of Lake County withdrew as venue over threats made on social media. Both stay off the page and stay in this file.", "source": "salembusinessjournal.org; lakemchenryscanner.com; dailyherald.com", "url": "https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/08/20/village-of-grayslake-announces-special-session-for-public-to-discuss-data-center-then-cancels-it-citing-social-media-threats/", "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "participation", "consultation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found shut, stale or already decided", "where": "Global", "note": "Kenya: public participation on the draft AI and Other Emerging Technologies Policy closed 4 August 2026. Ireland: pre-legislative scrutiny of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill closed 13 April 2026, the Act has passed and the AI Office of Ireland was established in July 2026. Brazil: the justice ministry's consultation on its ethical AI use guide closed 4 May 2026 and the education ministry's on AI in education closed 13 June 2026. European Commission: the AI Act consultation on serious incident reporting closed 7 November 2025 and the one on transparency guidelines closed 3 June 2026. India: the AI Governance Guidelines were finalised after a consultation drawing more than 2,500 submissions; no new window is open. California Privacy Protection Agency: no rulemaking package is open, despite a search result presenting its automated decisionmaking rules as in comment; those were finalised in September 2025 and bind from 1 January 2027. OECD and Council of Europe: no open call for input found. Australia: no new open AI or data centre consultation found beyond the Senate inquiry and the New South Wales network connection consultation already on the page.", "source": "multiple", "url": "https://ict.go.ke/sites/default/files/AI%20Policy%20Doc/index.html", "keywords": ["global", "national-government", "regulator", "consultation", "participation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Method note: two Spanish-language results and one African aggregator again presented closed consultations as open", "where": "Spain, Uruguay and Africa", "note": "A Spanish-language sweep surfaced two consultations as current that are years old. The Xunta de Galicia's prior public consultation on a future Galician AI law opened 15 September 2023 and closed 15 October 2023. Uruguay's process on reviewing the national AI strategy and creating a national data strategy had its public consultation phase from 15 September 2024 to 6 October 2024. Both were only caught by opening the source pages and reading the years, which is the same trap recorded on 17 August 2026. Separately, the AI Policy Lab aggregator at aipolicy.africa lists Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius consultations as Open with closing dates in 2024 and March 2026; Kenya's actually closed on 4 August 2026 and the South African one in September 2024. Useful as an index of what exists, not as a guide to what is open.", "source": "amtega.xunta.gal; plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy; aipolicy.africa", "url": "https://www.aipolicy.africa/policy-consultations", "keywords": ["africa", "europe", "latin-america", "consultation", "participation"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-23", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-30", "when_text": "", "what": "Nothing dropped under the defence exclusion this run, and one scope judgement recorded", "where": "Global", "note": "No event or consultation was excluded under the standing rule against primarily military or defence items. One scope judgement is recorded so a human can check it. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has a call for input open until 30 September 2026 on technologies related to climate change and their impacts on human rights, feeding a report to the Human Rights Council in June 2027, and anyone may answer it. It is left off the page because the call is about climate mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage technologies rather than about artificial intelligence, and because ohchr.org returns HTTP 403 to automated reading so whether AI, digital technologies or data centre energy demand are named inside the call could not be verified. If they are, it qualifies and belongs on the page.", "source": "ohchr.org", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2026/call-input-technologies-related-climate-change-and-their-impacts-human-rights", "keywords": ["global", "un", "consultation", "participation", "environment", "energy"], "door": false}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-08-24", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "24 August 2026, 6:30pm", "what": "CORRECTION to date: Piedmont, Oklahoma city council vote on Project Open Sky rezoning is 24 August 2026, not 25 August 2026", "where": "Piedmont Area Veterans Association, Piedmont, Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States", "note": "The entry first appeared on 2026-08-23 with starts 2026-08-25, taken from reporting that did not state the day of the month directly. Three sources give 24 August 2026 at 6:30pm at the Piedmont Area Veterans Association: okcfox.com, the strisker.com weekly briefing for 17 to 20 August, and a local commentary piece headed 'What The August 24 Vote Means'. The strisker daily notes for 20 August said only 'Monday', and 24 August 2026 is a Monday while 25 August is a Tuesday. The venue name is also corrected, from Piedmont Veterans Center to Piedmont Area Veterans Association. The earlier line is left in place above this one, unedited.", "sources": ["https://okcfox.com/news/local/piedmont-city-council-to-vote-on-rezoning-thousands-of-acres-for-data-center-campus", "https://writing.strisker.com/data-centers-weekly-briefing-august-17-20-2026/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-26", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "26 August 2026, 2pm to 3pm Arizona time", "what": "Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance webinar on the development of Indigenous data sovereignty in Taiwan, with Margaret Yun-Pu Tu", "where": "Online, hosted by the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, University of Arizona, United States", "note": "Margaret Yun-Pu Tu, also known as Nikal Kabala'an, is from the Pangcah or Amis and Sakizaya peoples of Taiwan and is a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Washington, working on Indigenous cultural rights, intellectual property and emerging technology policy including artificial intelligence and data governance. Registration is stated as open to the public. The Collaboratory has also announced a Fall 2026 Indigenous Data Exchange webinar series running weekly on Wednesdays at 2pm United States Pacific time; 26 August 2026 is a Wednesday but whether this session is the first of that series has not been stated. The Collaboratory's own pages return HTTP 403 to automated reading, so the detail here comes from what those pages have published elsewhere and was confirmed across two independent search results. This is the first dated Indigenous-led entry inside a year to reach the page; before it, the only one was the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May 2027.", "sources": ["https://indigenousdatalab.org/webinars/", "https://indigenousdatalab.org/indigenous-data-exchange/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-21", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-20", "when_text": "Open now, closes 20 October 2026", "what": "United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission request for comment on the listing of compute derivatives contracts", "where": "United States, through the commission's comment portal", "note": "Announced 19 August 2026 and published in the Federal Register on 21 August 2026, with a sixty-day comment window closing 20 October 2026. The request seeks comment on the size and liquidity of compute cash markets, market oversight and manipulation concerns, customer protection, and perpetual compute futures. The commission describes it as an early step before drafting any rules for markets that would let companies and investors manage the cost and availability of compute. Anyone may file a comment.", "sources": ["https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/21/2026-17163/request-for-comment-on-the-listing-of-compute-derivatives-contracts", "https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9286-26"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-28", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "28 September 2026", "what": "St Louis Board of Aldermen special meeting on Board Bill 49, data centre zoning regulations", "where": "St Louis, Missouri, United States", "note": "Board Bill 49 adds section 26.77 to the city zoning code, creating comprehensive zoning regulations for data centres. It sorts them into three sizes and puts the strictest requirements on the largest: greater separation from homes, schools and parks, cool or green roofs, and renewable power phased in over ten years. The planning commission approved it on 10 June 2026. Aldermen then amended it, the sponsors said the amendments weakened it, and the planning commission rejected the amendments, which raises the threshold for passage in amended form to ten yes votes rather than a simple majority. Whether the public may speak at the special meeting has not been published, so no door chip was applied. Reported by STLPR on 21 August 2026 as 'possibly' set for 28 September, so the date is worth rechecking against the board's agenda.", "sources": ["https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-08-21/explained-st-louis-area-data-center-regulations", "https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/city-laws/board-bills/boardbill.cfm?bbDetail=true&BBId=16888"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-10", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "October 2026, exact date not yet set", "what": "Bay City planning commission to revisit draft data centre regulations after subcommittee study", "where": "Bay City, Bay County, Michigan, United States", "note": "More than a dozen residents spoke when the planning commission reviewed the draft ordinance, and the commission formed a subcommittee to study it further and revisit it in October 2026. The city's planning and zoning manager, Adam Pruett, describes the draft as guardrails covering facility size, power demand, water use, noise and decommissioning. The city commission had earlier passed a resolution nine votes to none asking planning staff and the zoning consultant to study data centre zoning, environmental limits and public engagement. The month is published and the day is not, so the calendar marks no day for this entry.", "sources": ["https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7252805/Bay-City/Bay-County/Michigan/Bay-City-asks-planning-staff-to-study-datacenter-rules-after-months-of-public-concern-resolution-passes-unanimously", "https://writing.strisker.com/data-centers-daily-notes-august-20-2026/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-11-30", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "30 November 2026", "what": "Australian Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence final report due", "where": "Parliament House, Canberra, Australia", "note": "The committee was appointed on Thursday 20 August 2026, drawing members from both houses, and is to present its final report no later than 30 November 2026. Its establishment was announced jointly by government and opposition. The published remit covers national security, productivity, competitiveness and living standards, the adequacy of existing laws, data sovereignty, sovereign AI capability, employment and worker displacement, AI-driven scams, intellectual property, the rate and depth of adoption in Australian businesses with particular attention to small and family businesses, and the impact on communities. No window for public submissions had been published as at this scan. If one opens it will be short, given a reporting deadline about fourteen weeks after appointment.", "sources": ["https://www.andrewhastie.com.au/joint_statement_joint_select_committee_on_ai", "https://www.smartcompany.com.au/artificial-intelligence/parliamentary-committee-inquiry-small-business-artificial-intelligence/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-08-25", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-06", "when_text": "25 August, 8 September and 6 October 2026", "what": "Lexington, Kentucky entry widened from one council date to three", "where": "Council Chambers, Government Center, 200 East Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky, United States", "note": "The entry first appeared with the 6 October 2026 special Committee of the Whole only. The city's engagement page publishes three dates: an Urban County Council work session on 25 August 2026 at 3pm taking the planning commission's updated recommendations; a General Government and Planning Committee informational presentation from planning staff on 8 September 2026; and the special Committee of the Whole on 6 October 2026 at 5:30pm, which the city states is to gather public input. All three are now carried on the entry and marked on the calendar. Written comment may also go to PlanningMailbox@lexingtonky.gov and CouncilMembers-Email@LexingtonKY.gov. The Fayette County pause on data centre permits, development plans and zone changes runs to 31 October 2026.", "sources": ["https://engage.lexingtonky.gov/DataCenters"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-08-17", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-14", "when_text": "Open now, closes 14 September 2026, 5:00pm eastern Australian time", "what": "New South Wales network connection consultation entry gains the Policy Framework, the Bill and a confirmed closing time", "where": "New South Wales, Australia, written submissions", "note": "Two further items were published alongside the consultation on 17 August 2026 and are now named on the entry: the NSW Data Centre Policy Framework with accompanying Guidelines, described as the first of its kind in Australia by the source, and the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Amendment Bill 2026, introduced into Parliament, which would let the NSW energy minister declare large load infrastructure access schemes and so regulate data centre grid connections, using powers similar to those available for Renewable Energy Zones. The closing time is confirmed as 5:00pm AEST on 14 September 2026. The Guidelines are to be reviewed annually, and the government commits to assessing conforming applications within 75 days.", "sources": ["https://www.claytonutz.com/insights/2026/august/nsw-draws-the-line-what-the-new-data-centre-policy-framework-means-for-investors-developers-government-and-communities", "https://www.energy.nsw.gov.au/news/nation-leading-framework-harness-nsw-data-centre-investment"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Four data centre processes with a place but no published day, held off the page", "where": "United States", "note": "Minot, North Dakota: the planning commission approved updates to the city's data centre ordinance nine votes to none in the week to 14 August 2026, limiting data centres to the large industrial area east of the airport and requiring a conditional use permit so the city can set controls on noise and water use. The updates go to a city council meeting in September 2026; no day is published in the reporting and the Minot Daily News piece does not name one. St Louis County, Missouri: planning staff are revising the draft zoning rules and will present a second draft to the planning commission in mid September 2026, which sits alongside the dated 14 September 2026 executive meeting already on the page. Northfield, Minnesota: a planning commission public hearing on data centre regulations is mentioned in the strisker daily notes for 20 August 2026 with no date. Salem in Oregon, Grayslake in Illinois, Cumberland County in North Carolina and Louisville in Kentucky are unchanged from the 23 August run and still without published days.", "sources": ["https://www.kfyrtv.com/2026/08/14/minot-planning-commission-drafts-framework-data-center-guidelines/", "https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2026-08-21/explained-st-louis-area-data-center-regulations", "https://writing.strisker.com/data-centers-daily-notes-august-20-2026/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Raleigh data centre hearing will not happen: the developer withdrew after the speakers' list filled", "where": "Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, United States", "note": "A public hearing on annexation petition AX-09-26 for a proposed data centre in south-east Raleigh was scheduled for a city council meeting in August 2026. Within hours of the agenda being posted the list of people signed up to speak reached capacity. Beacon Partners withdrew the request on 15 August 2026, so the hearing did not take place and no rescheduled date exists. Recorded because it is the inverse of most entries on this page: a door that closed because enough people walked toward it.", "sources": ["https://www.wunc.org/term/news/2026-08-17/data-center-southeast-raleigh-opposition-city-council", "https://www.wral.com/news/local/proposed-raleigh-data-center-prompts-dozens-to-sign-up-to-comment-august-2026/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Checked and found closed: Argentina judicial AI consultation, the GIDA Indigenous data sovereignty and AI workshop, and two UN human rights calls", "where": "Argentina, Mexico, global", "note": "Argentina: the Presidency of the Supreme Court of Justice of Buenos Aires Province ran a participatory consultation on a draft Reglamento para el desarrollo y uso responsable de la Inteligencia Artificial, open to institutions and individuals through an online form, and extended it from 7 August to 21 August 2026 in response to requests received after the first deadline. Now closed. Mexico: the Global Indigenous Data Alliance workshop on Indigenous data sovereignty and AI, hosted by COLPOS in Texcoco and bringing together Te Mana Raraunga, Te Kahui Raraunga, the Pacific Data Sovereignty Network, Mayam nayri Wingara, the United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, the First Nations Information Governance Centre, GIDA-Inuit, GIDA-Sapmi and scholars from Latin America and Africa, is dated 25 to 27 February on a page headed 2026, which places it in the past; no 2027 date is published. Global: the UN human rights office call for contributions on artificial intelligence and creativity closed 5 May 2025, and the call on protection of human rights defenders in the digital age, which asked about AI-related risks, surveillance, encryption and platform attacks, closed 31 March 2026.", "sources": ["https://www.justicia.ar/novedades/5150/2026/08/prorroga-para-la-consulta-participativa-sobre-ia-para-la-labor-judicial", "https://www.gida-global.org/gidaidsovaiworkshop", "https://www.norrageducation.org/call-for-inputs-ohchr-call-for-contributions-on-artificial-intelligence-and-creativity/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "2026-08-19", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "United States Federal Trade Commission personalised pricing comment period has no start date yet, so it is held off the page", "where": "United States, docket FTC-2026-1057", "note": "The Federal Trade Commission announced on 19 August 2026 that it seeks public comment on a proposed enforcement policy statement regarding personalised pricing, the use of personal data to set prices according to what a company believes an individual is willing to pay. The public gets 30 days from Federal Register publication, and as at the announcement that publication had not happened and no date for it had been set, so there is no closing date to put on the page. It belongs on the page as an open door the moment publication occurs. Adjacent in subject to the French ACPR consultation on algorithmic fairness already carried, which closes 30 September 2026.", "sources": ["https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/08/ftc-seeks-comment-enforcement-policy-statement-regarding-personalized-pricing", "https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-trade-commissions-proposed-enforcement-policy-statement-regarding-personalized-pricing"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-30", "when_text": "", "what": "Nothing dropped under the defence exclusion this run; the climate technologies scope judgement remains unresolved", "where": "Global", "note": "No event or consultation was excluded under the standing rule against primarily military or defence items. The scope judgement recorded on 23 August 2026 stands and could not be resolved: the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has a call for input open until 30 September 2026 on technologies related to climate change and their impacts on human rights, which anyone may answer. The office's calls for input listing page opened to this scan for the first time in several runs and confirms both that call and the child rights and safety call closing 30 October 2026, but the individual call document still returns HTTP 403 to automated reading, so whether artificial intelligence, data centres or the energy demand of computing are named inside it could not be verified. If they are, it belongs on the page. A person opening the call page in a browser could settle this in a minute, and doing so would be the single most useful check available to the next run.", "sources": ["https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input-listing", "https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2026/call-input-technologies-related-climate-change-and-their-impacts-human-rights"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-24", "stamp": "18:11 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "The African AI policy consultation aggregator was opened directly and is worse than previously described", "where": "Africa", "note": "The AI Policy Lab consultations page run by LawyersHub Africa was read directly this run rather than through search results. It presents six consultations as open. Their stated dates are: Kenya AI and Emerging Technologies Policy, 1 March to 25 March 2026; AI and Democracy Working Group, opened 31 October 2024, no closing date; South Africa National AI Policy Framework, 14 August 2024 to end of September 2024; National AI Policy for Mauritius, September 2024, no closing date; Global Digital Compact consultations Nigeria, March to April 2023; UNESCO Guidelines for AI in Judicial Systems, opened 2 August 2024, no closing date. Every one of the six has either closed or carries no closing date. The Kenya dates it gives also disagree with the Kenyan ministry's own consultation, which ran to 4 August 2026. Useful as an index of what has existed; not usable as a guide to what is open.", "sources": ["https://www.aipolicy.africa/policy-consultations"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-26", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-26", "when_text": "26 August 2026", "what": "Salem Township public hearing on widening the data centre overlay zone for the Salem 3 campus", "where": "Berwick Assembly of God, Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States", "note": "The township's own site publishes both a public hearing and a board of supervisors meeting for 26 August 2026, held at the Berwick Assembly of God rather than a municipal building. A planning commission meeting follows on 27 August. The supervisors decide whether to widen the township's data centre overlay zone to fit the footprint of the Salem 3 Data Center Campus proposed by the 4-3 Glennbrook Group, led by Jack Sordoni; the planning commission has recommended that they do. The proposal is reported as more than four thousand acres, thirty-nine buildings, on-site power generation and a closed-loop water system, resting on a land deal of about 1.2 billion dollars across more than two hundred property owners, with land-sale proceeds estimated at 1.4 billion. No starting time is published on the township page. Note on the date: one briefing gave the supervisors' vote as Wednesday 27 August, which is not a Wednesday in 2026; the township's own calendar gives 26 August, and that is what this entry carries.", "url": "https://www.salemtwp.org/", "source": "salemtwp.org", "door": true, "keywords": ["north-america", "local-government", "data-centres", "consultation", "participation", "planning", "land", "water", "energy"], "sources": ["https://www.salemtwp.org/", "https://www.timesleader.com/news/1752841/developers-tout-impacts-of-3-data-center-campuses-zoning-meeting-set-for-wednesday-on-4-3-glenbrook-group-project"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "note", "starts": "2026-08-24", "ends": "2026-08-24", "closes": "", "when_text": "24 August 2026, 6:30pm Piedmont time", "what": "Piedmont rezoning vote held on the page past its Brisbane date, because it had not happened in Oklahoma", "where": "Piedmont Area Veterans Association, Piedmont, Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States", "note": "Step 5 of the routine moves an entry to what already came once its end date has passed. At this scan the Brisbane date had turned to 25 August while Piedmont, fifteen hours behind, was about two hours from the 6:30pm meeting. Moving the entry would have told readers a vote still to come had already happened, so it is held for one more run and the reasoning is recorded here rather than left implicit. The test in Step 1 is whether the thing has happened, and it had not. The live countdown on the page already computes from the reader's own clock, so a reader in Oklahoma saw the vote marked as today while a reader in Brisbane saw it marked as passed; the entry text now says so. Also confirmed this run: Piedmont has two data centre rezoning requests moving through the same process, and the one on this page is the Cloverleaf Project Open Sky planned unit development of about 633.55 acres. No outcome had been published at the time of the scan.", "sources": ["https://okcfox.com/news/local/piedmont-city-council-to-vote-on-rezoning-thousands-of-acres-for-data-center-campus", "https://www.radiooklahomanews.com/post/piedmont-data-center-proposal-heads-to-city-council-vote-tonight"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-30", "when_text": "Closes 30 September 2026", "what": "Resolved: the UN human rights call on climate-related technologies does not name AI, digital technology or data centres, and stays off the page", "where": "Online, submissions to the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the context of climate change", "note": "Carried as an unresolved scope judgement since 20 August because the OHCHR call document refuses automated reading. The Geneva Environment Network aggregator, which does open, carries the call's own framing: it is issued by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, Elisa Morgera, with a deadline of 30 September 2026, and it covers technologies for climate change mitigation, adaptation and responses to loss and damage, with emphasis on a full life-cycle approach to assessing technologies affecting lands and oceans. Artificial intelligence, digital technology and data centres are not named. The call therefore fails this page's scope test and is not carried. A web search summary asserted that AI and data centres were within scope; that assertion could not be traced to the call text and was not relied on. The open question is closed rather than repeated each run.", "sources": ["https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/special-procedures-of-the-human-rights-council/", "https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2026/call-input-technologies-related-climate-change-and-their-impacts-human-rights"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-07-02", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-08-27", "when_text": "Open now, closes 27 August 2026", "what": "EU Cloud and AI Development Act feedback window confirmed by a second source as 2 July to 27 August 2026", "where": "European Union, through the Commission's Have your say portal", "note": "The entry has carried a caution that the dates came from legal reporting because the Commission's own consultation pages would not open to this scan. A second independent source now gives the same window, 2 July to 27 August 2026. The Commission's Have your say initiative page for the Act was requested directly this run and returned no readable content, so the caution on the entry stands as written and readers are still told to check the portal itself before writing.", "sources": ["https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/european-commission-advances-new-proposal-to-expand-cloud-capacity-and-ai-infrastructure", "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-and-ai-development-act"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "September 2026, no day published", "what": "Kokomo, Indiana, introduces a data centre zoning amendment with a September vote and no published day", "where": "Kokomo City Hall, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, United States", "note": "The Kokomo Plan Commission voted five to one on 17 August to support an amendment making data centres an allowed use on industrial properties and within parts of the U.S. 31 overlay district on the city's east side. The Common Council introduced the ordinance at a 6pm meeting on 24 August local time, with a final vote expected in September; no day is published. The draft requires at least 200 feet from a residential district and 300 feet from any home, and unlike Indianapolis it adds no stricter noise or utility rules. The same ordinance also expands the property types allowed for schools, shooting ranges and multifamily housing. Held off the page for want of a day.", "sources": ["https://www.wrtv.com/news/wrtv-investigates/kokomo-considers-zoning-change-allowing-data-centers-on-industrial-sites", "https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team/kokomo-data-center-zoning-amendment/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "Reported for 25 August 2026, unconfirmed", "what": "A Spartanburg County zoning appeals hearing on the 300 Jones Road data centre appeal could not be confirmed and is not on the page", "where": "Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States", "note": "One daily briefing reports a Spartanburg County Board of Zoning Appeals hearing on 25 August 2026 for the Lightstone Group's appeal concerning 300 Jones Road, where an affiliate acquired 152 acres and rights to 60 megawatts from Greenidge Generation Holdings. The county's own Board of Zoning Appeals page publishes deadline dates but no readable meeting schedule or agenda, and a second source could not be found for the date, time or place. Reporting from earlier in August places a Board of Zoning Appeals sitting at 5:30pm on 11 August at the Gregg Community Center, which is the city board rather than the county one. Not carried on the page: a hearing dated for the day of the scan is exactly the sort of entry that must not rest on a single unconfirmed line. Spartanburg County's dated 21 September third reading of the countywide moratorium is unaffected and remains on the page.", "sources": ["https://writing.strisker.com/data-centers-daily-notes-august-24-2026/", "https://www.spartanburgcounty.gov/841/Board-of-Zoning-Appeals"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "October 2026 and unscheduled, no days published", "what": "Two further Pennsylvania and Rhode Island data centre processes with no usable date", "where": "Doylestown Township, Pennsylvania, and Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States", "note": "Doylestown Township supervisors may consider adopting an ordinance establishing conditional-use zoning rules for data centres in October 2026, with no day published. Cumberland, Rhode Island, has a public hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance restricting data centre development waiting on a subcommittee review, with no date set. Both held here rather than on the page.", "sources": ["https://writing.strisker.com/data-centers-daily-notes-august-24-2026/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked outside North America and found shut, rolling or stale; none opened between the two scans", "where": "Ireland, European Union, Spain, Uruguay, Canada, United Kingdom, Kenya, India", "note": "Checked and closed: the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment call for submissions on the General Scheme of the Regulation of the Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 and the Data Bill 2025, closed 5:30pm 13 April 2026; the European Commission consultation on draft guidelines for the AI Act transparency obligations, closed 3 June 2026; the Spanish digital omnibus on AI consultation, 23 January to 8 February 2026; Uruguay's national AI strategy consultation, 16 September to 21 October 2024, with the strategy approved 21 November 2024, and the linked strategy revision process with all phases ended October 2024; the UN open call for candidates for the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, closed 31 October 2025; the People's Consultation on AI in Canada, run by Citizen Lab and other civil society organisations as an alternative to the government's national sprint, closed 15 March 2026; Kenya's National AI and Emerging Technologies Policy consultation, closed 25 March 2026. Checked and undated: Ofgem's AI Reg Lab in the United Kingdom takes applications on a rolling basis with no closing date and is open only to energy sector licensees, so it fails both the date and the openness tests. India's MeitY AI Governance Guidelines were published after a consultation whose window is not stated on the sources found. No new door outside North America was found in the thirteen hours between this scan and the last.", "sources": ["https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-centre/press-releases/20260306-enterprise-committee-launches-public-call-for-submissions-on-the-regulation-of-ai-bill-2026-and-the-data-bill-2025/", "https://plataformaparticipacionciudadana.gub.uy/processes/consulta-publica-estrategia-ia", "https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en/open-call", "https://citizenlab.ca/peoples-consultation-on-ai-now-accepting-submissions/", "https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/guidance/ofgem-ai-reg-lab-call-submissions"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "The United States federal register carries no new open AI or data centre comment window since 15 August, and the personalised pricing request is still unpublished", "where": "United States, federalregister.gov", "note": "The register was queried directly this run rather than through reporting. Notices mentioning artificial intelligence published since 15 August 2026 are advisory board nominations and unrelated information collections; only two are open for comment and neither concerns AI governance. Documents mentioning data centres since 10 August are exchange connectivity filings, aviation notices and a privacy act system of records. A search for personalised pricing returns nothing published since 1 August, so the federal trade regulator's request for comment announced on 19 August has still not started its thirty-day clock and still does not qualify for this page. It belongs here the day it is published.", "sources": ["https://www.federalregister.gov/"]}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-25", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "note", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "tools/check-pages.py gains a one-day timezone grace on the retention check", "where": "gajra-earth-claude-build/tools/check-pages.py", "note": "The retention check failed this run on the Piedmont entry dated 24 August, because the machine's date is Brisbane and Brisbane had already turned over while the vote in Oklahoma was two hours away. The check was correct as a rule and wrong at that one boundary, so the check was changed rather than the page. Brisbane is UTC+10 and the last timezone on Earth is UTC-12, so a calendar date is finished everywhere 22 hours after Brisbane's midnight. Rounded to whole days, the failure now fires from D+2 rather than D+1, and the intervening grace day is reported as a note telling the run to move the entry next time and to say on the page why it is still there. Recorded here rather than only in git so the reasoning travels with the calendar.", "sources": []}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-14", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-11", "when_text": "Open now, closes 11 September 2026", "what": "Ireland opens a national public consultation on the European Cloud and AI Development Act", "where": "Ireland, by email to the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment", "note": "The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment opened a consultation on 14 August to build an evidence base for Ireland's response to the European Commission's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act. It covers cloud and computing infrastructure capacity, support for AI innovation, public sector cloud procurement and a European framework for cloud sovereignty. Submissions go by email to cada@enterprise.gov.ie and close on 11 September. The department says a respondent need not address the whole Act. Submissions may be published with personal details removed, and commercially sensitive material must be flagged by the sender. This door had been open eleven days before this scan found it, and the two previous runs both recorded that no door outside North America could be found open. The reason it was missed is worth keeping: the search looked for consultations about artificial intelligence, not for national responses to a European proposal already carried on the page. Sources: enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultations/public-consultation-cada.html and digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cloud-and-ai-development-act", "keys": "europe national-government consultation participation data-centres data-sovereignty procurement"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-31", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-11-09", "when_text": "31 August, 21 September and 9 November 2026, all 7:00pm", "what": "Woodbury County zoning commission takes its data centre question to three separate town halls", "where": "Sloan Community Hall, Moville Community Center and Salix Community Center, Woodbury County, Iowa, United States", "note": "The county board of supervisors approved a one-year moratorium on data centres in June 2026, and the zoning commission is using that year to work out what should replace it. Three town halls are published, each at 7pm: Sloan on 31 August, Moville on 21 September, Salix on 9 November. The commission is preparing a recommendation to the supervisors on how data centre permits should be handled, as a zoning ordinance text amendment or a separate ordinance. Written comment goes to Woodbury County Planning and Zoning, 620 Douglas Street, Sixth Floor, Sioux City, or by email to the planning and zoning coordinator Dan Priestley, and does not close with any of the three meetings. The rules would reach only the unincorporated parts of the county, because the towns inside it set their own zoning. Sources: ktiv.com 1 August 2026, kwit.org 3 August 2026, iowapublicradio.org 24 June 2026", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation moratorium planning land"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-21", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "21 September 2026, 2:00pm", "what": "Marion County moves its data centre workshop back three weeks and directs staff to draft a twelve-month permitting moratorium", "where": "McPherson Governmental Campus Auditorium, 601 SE 25th Avenue, Ocala, Marion County, Florida, United States", "note": "Commissioners voted unanimously on 21 July to hold a workshop on how the county should handle data centre applications, after public comment ran heavily against them on water, power, noise and rural character. It was set for 1 September. On 4 August the board moved it to 21 September and in the same sitting directed staff to draft a twelve-month permitting moratorium, which the county administrator recommended over the six-month pause first suggested. A petition asking for the workshop to be delayed until newly elected commissioners take office in November passed five thousand signatures, and residents held their own citizens' workshop in Ocala on 24 August. Florida Senate Bill 484 leaves local zoning powers alone but sets requirements on utility cost allocation and consumptive water use permitting. No door chip: a commission workshop is not a formal public hearing, though reporting says residents will have a chance to speak, and the moratorium has to go through the Land Development Regulation Commission. Sources: wcjb.com 23 July 2026, ocala-news.com 22 July 2026, ocalagazette.com", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres moratorium participation water energy planning"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-22", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-24", "when_text": "22 September 2026, then 24 September 2026 at 7:00pm", "what": "Fairfax County planning commission hears the substation for the Plaza 500 data centre at Lincolnia", "where": "Board Auditorium, Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia, United States, and online", "note": "Starwood Capital Group has filed permits and building plans for a data centre on a thirty-four acre site at 6299 Edsall Road at Lincolnia. Dominion Energy needs a substation and new transmission lines to power it and reach the existing Van Dorn substation. The hearing is a public facilities review under section 15.2-2232 of Virginia code, at 7pm on 24 September, carried on the county cable channel and online; the Mason District Land Use Committee recommends on 22 September. The data centre itself is a by-right use and needs no hearing, so the substation review is the only point at which anyone is heard. The Mason District supervisor has asked the commission to reject it, Representative Don Beyer has called on the county to deny it, more than 1,300 people signed a letter to the Governor opposing it, and a community forum at Beatley Library in Alexandria was packed. Alexandria is a different jurisdiction from the one deciding. Sources: ffxnow.com 7 August 2026, annandaletoday.com, alxnow.com 19 August 2026", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation energy grid planning"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-08-27", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "27 August 2026", "what": "Austin entry narrowed from two dates to one; the 25 August work session has been held", "where": "Austin, Texas, United States", "note": "The council work session on data centre regulation was held on 25 August. The entry previously carried 25 and 27 August and now carries 27 August alone, when the council may act on a resolution directing staff to begin amending the Land Development Code and other city regulations. What came out of the work session and is now recorded on the entry: five councillors, Vanessa Fuentes, Jose Velasquez, Ryan Alter, Mike Siegel and Zo Qadri, held a press conference afterwards to say they oppose new data centres in Austin outright, which is a harder position than the staff recommendation the council had been handed. Staff had recommended new land use categories for higher-impact facilities including hyperscale sites, no incentives for data centres to come to Austin, and no exemption from resource efficiency standards. Sources: kxan.com, communityimpact.com", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning water energy participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "change", "starts": "2026-09-08", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-06", "when_text": "8 September and 6 October 2026", "what": "Lexington entry narrowed from three dates to two; the 25 August work session has been held", "where": "Council Chambers, Government Center, 200 East Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky, United States", "note": "The Urban County Council took the planning commission's updated recommendations at a work session on 25 August, which has now passed. Two dates remain from the city's engagement page: 8 September, when the General Government and Planning Committee gets an informational presentation from planning staff, and 6 October at 5:30pm, a special Committee of the Whole given over to gathering public input at a more accessible hour than the council's usual afternoon meetings. The Fayette County pause on data centre permits, development plans and zone changes runs out on 31 October, three weeks after that sitting. Sources: engage.lexingtonky.gov, news.civiclex.org, lexington herald-leader", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation moratorium planning"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-24", "ends": "2026-08-24", "closes": "", "when_text": "Held 24 August 2026, 6:30pm", "what": "Piedmont rezoning and annexation vote has been held and the entry moves to what already came, with the outcome unknown", "where": "Piedmont Area Veterans Association, Piedmont, Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States", "note": "The council sat on the evening of 24 August, the third sitting on the Cloverleaf Project Open Sky proposal, to decide whether to rezone about 630 acres and whether to annex the site so it could draw city water. Nothing has been published about what it decided. Reporting that surfaces on a search still describes the July meeting, where the council sent the future land use map back to the planning commission for more study and set 24 August for the rest; one account of a council night ending at ten o'clock with no decision made could not be dated to 24 August with confidence rather than to an earlier sitting. The entry moved to ahead/index.html with the outcome recorded as not known, and three checkable things noted there: whether the three citizen initiative petitions are still being run, the developer's option on an alternate site, and the second Piedmont data centre rezoning request in the same process. This resolves the timezone hold recorded on 25 August: the entry was kept one extra run because Brisbane had turned over while the vote in Oklahoma was two hours away, and it has now genuinely passed on both clocks. The watch has logged nothing on Piedmont.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning land participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked outside North America this run and found shut: Brazil, India, the UN human rights office listing and the United States federal register", "where": "Brazil, India, Geneva, United States", "note": "Brazil looked promising and is not. The Senate's science, technology, innovation and informatics committee held an interactive hearing on the AI data centre bill PL 3018/2024 on 9 June 2026 through the e-Cidadania platform, which takes questions from the public by phone on 0800 0 61 2211 and online, and held a further debate on 4 August; both are closed and the bill has no open comment window. The Ministry of Justice consultation on the ethical AI user guide closed on 4 May 2026. India's AI governance guidelines were issued on 5 November 2025 after a consultation that drew more than 2,500 submissions, and nothing is open now. The OHCHR calls for input listing carries no open call naming artificial intelligence beyond the child rights and safety in the digital environment call already on the page, closing 30 October. The United States federal register carries nothing new open for AI comment since 21 August. Worth watching rather than searching again: the United Kingdom has said it will consult on a National Policy Statement for Data Centres and on National Planning Policy Framework changes for AI Growth Zones, and that consultation has not opened.", "keys": "latin-america asia europe global consultation participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Two items checked this run turned out to be past rather than ahead", "where": "Montour County, Pennsylvania, and Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States", "note": "Montour County adopted its amended data centre ordinance, Ordinance 1-2026, at a commissioners meeting in April 2026, following a public hearing at 10am and a vote at the 11am regular meeting. The public hearing notice that surfaces on a search is five months old, and any further change would have to be advertised for thirty days and re-noticed before a vote. The Spartanburg County Board of Zoning Appeals hearing on the Lightstone Group appeal at 300 Jones Road, reported for 25 August by one briefing and confirmable nowhere else including on the county's own board page, has now passed unverified. It was never written onto the page with a date this scan could not stand behind and it will not be added retrospectively.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-26", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "No days published", "what": "Two further data centre processes with a place and no usable date", "where": "Henry County, Virginia, and Hall County, Georgia, United States", "note": "Henry County pulled data centres out of its proposed zoning ordinance amendments after a July hearing that more than a hundred residents packed, with concerns from water and noise to health and animal habitats; the board chairman said the county was going back to the drawing board, and the planning commission is to develop a new set of regulations with no timeline announced. Hall County has taken about 106 comments on a draft ordinance that would define data centres, set size classifications and require a special use permit with sound, environmental impact and traffic studies before an application reaches the Board of Commissioners; public input meetings have been held and no hearing date is published. Both stay off the page until a day is published. Kokomo in Indiana, Doylestown Township in Pennsylvania, Cumberland in Rhode Island, Minot, Northfield, Salem in Oregon, Grayslake, Cumberland County in North Carolina and Louisville are unchanged from last run and still without published days.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-08-26", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-22", "when_text": "Open now, closes 22 October 2026, 5:00pm", "what": "Singapore consults on what artificial intelligence does to its intellectual property regime", "where": "Singapore, online form or by email to the Ministry of Law", "note": "The Ministry of Law and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore opened a public consultation on 26 August 2026, closing at 5pm on 22 October 2026. Three copyright questions: accountability for the material a model is trained on, management of copyright infringement risk, and where human creativity sits in an AI-assisted work. Two patent questions: whether existing inventorship principles hold, and what AI-generated technical disclosures do to prior art. Invited: rights owners, technology companies, creative industry representatives, legal practitioners, academics and other interested parties. Submissions go through separate FormSG forms for copyright and patents, or by email to MLAW_Consultation@mlaw.gov.sg. The ministry reserves the right to publish all or part of a submission and to name its source; commercially sensitive material must be marked in a separate annex and confidentiality cannot cover substantially all of a submission. First entry on the page from Asia carried as an open door.", "keys": "asia national-government consultation participation copyright consent"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-07-29", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-16", "when_text": "Open now, closes 16 September 2026", "what": "Ofgem consults on data centre grid connection reforms, a commitment fee and queue management milestones", "where": "United Kingdom, by email to Ofgem", "note": "Ofgem opened a consultation on 29 July 2026 on reforming the demand connections process, closing 16 September 2026. It proposes a new data centre commitment fee and data centre queue management milestones, so that projects which may never be built stop holding grid capacity and pushing later projects back. Ofgem says it is working on this with government, the National Energy System Operator and the network companies. Invited: data centre developers, operators and network operators, and anyone with an interest in the demand connections process. Responses on a published template by email to connections@ofgem.gov.uk, alternative formats on request. Sits beside the New South Wales consultation closing 14 September: that one asks who pays for the network upgrades, this one asks who may hold a place in the queue at all.", "keys": "europe regulator data-centres consultation participation energy grid"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-08", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "8 September 2026, 2:00pm", "what": "Lubbock holds a public hearing on a citizen-initiated ordinance for an eighteen-month data centre moratorium", "where": "Council Chambers, Lubbock, Texas, United States", "note": "Save Lubbock, a residents group, wrote an ordinance for an eighteen-month moratorium on high water use and high energy use data centres inside the city limits and gathered more than three thousand signatures against the 2,410 required. The city secretary verified them and the council accepted the petition on 26 August 2026, setting a public hearing for 8 September at 2pm in council chambers where members of the public may argue for and against. The council then has thirty days to adopt or reject the ordinance; if it rejects it, the ordinance goes to the voters at the next regular election in November. Unusual on this page because the ordinance was written by residents rather than by staff, and because the hearing is not the last word.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation moratorium water energy"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-02", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "2 September 2026, 2pm to 3pm Arizona time", "what": "Webinar introducing guidelines for the governance of Indigenous peoples data in scholarly publishing", "where": "Online, hosted by the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, University of Arizona, United States", "note": "A panel of six introduces new guidelines for the governance of Indigenous peoples data in scholarly publishing: what a journal, an editor or a reviewer does when a paper carries data belonging to a people rather than to the researcher who gathered it. Registration is stated as open. Same hour as the Taiwan session this page carried for 26 August, which supports the Collaboratory statement that its Fall 2026 Indigenous Data Exchange runs weekly on Wednesdays; nothing is published beyond this date. The Collaboratory pages refuse automated reading, so the date, hour and subject come from what those pages have published elsewhere; the webinars page opens normally in a browser and is where to register.", "keys": "global academia indigenous data-sovereignty participation capacity-building"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-26", "ends": "2026-08-26", "closes": "2026-08-26", "when_text": "Held 26 August 2026", "what": "Salem Township hearing on widening the data centre overlay zone has passed and the entry moves to what already came, with the outcome unknown and a court ordering an earlier meeting to be held again", "where": "Berwick Assembly of God, Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States", "note": "The date has passed and nothing has been published about what the board of supervisors decided on widening the overlay zone for the Salem 3 campus proposed by the 4-3 Glennbrook Group. The township home page carries an agenda for 26 August alongside a note of a cancelled public hearing, which this scan could not confirm against a second source, and lists a planning commission meeting for 27 August at the same church hall. Separately, on 25 August Judge Lesa S. Gelb of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the township planning commission violated Pennsylvanias Sunshine Act at its meeting of 13 July, when residents found the municipal building doors locked and were turned away with an overflow room the only provision made. Eight residents brought the case, from Butler Township, Shickshinny, Sugarloaf, Orangeville and Berwick. The judge ordered the commission to hold a second meeting to take public input; no date for it has been published. The watch has logged nothing on Salem Township.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation planning land water energy"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-26", "ends": "2026-08-26", "closes": "", "when_text": "Held 26 August 2026, 2pm to 3pm Arizona time", "what": "Indigenous data sovereignty webinar on Taiwan has been held and the entry moves to what already came, with the outcome unknown", "where": "Online, hosted by the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, University of Arizona, United States", "note": "The hour has passed and the Collaboratory publishes nothing about who attended or what was said. What is checkable is that the series continued: registration is open for a session at the same hour on 2 September introducing new guidelines for the governance of Indigenous peoples data in scholarly publishing, which is now on Ahead in this entrys place. That answers the open question the entry carried, that whether the announced Fall 2026 Indigenous Data Exchange series was running had not been stated. The watch has logged nothing on this.", "keys": "global academia indigenous data-sovereignty participation capacity-building asia"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found shut: Kenya, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Uruguay, two European Commission AI Act consultations, and the United States Federal Register", "where": "Kenya, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Uruguay, European Union, United States", "note": "Kenyas draft Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy 2026 took comments to 4 August 2026 and is shut. Brazils data protection authority ran Tomada de Subsidios 06/2024 on artificial intelligence and the review of automated decisions from 6 November 2024 to 24 January 2025, drew 124 contributions and published the results in May 2026; nothing is open now. India has nothing open, its AI Governance Guidelines having been issued in November 2025 after a round that drew more than 2,500 submissions. Indonesias consultation on the white paper for its national AI roadmap and ethics guidelines closed on 22 August 2025 with more than 400 submissions. Uruguays consultation on its national AI strategy ran 15 September to 20 October 2024 and is closed, which is a different process from the children and digital environments consultation still open and still on the page. Two European Commission consultations under the AI Act have closed: the targeted consultation on draft guidelines for classifying high-risk systems, extended to 23 July 2026, and the consultation on draft guidelines for transparency obligations. Nothing new open for comment on artificial intelligence has appeared in the United States Federal Register since 21 August 2026. The United Kingdom consultation on a National Policy Statement for Data Centres, promised alongside the AI Growth Zones work, has still not opened and stays the clearest thing to watch for outside North America.", "keys": "global national-government regulator consultation participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-27", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "No days published", "what": "Three further processes with a place and no usable date", "where": "Fayetteville and Lincolnton, North Carolina; Salem Township, Pennsylvania; Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States", "note": "Fayetteville held its public hearing on proposed data centre regulations on 10 August 2026 and voted seven to three to send them back to city staff for revision and reconsideration in late October, with no day set. Salem Townships court-ordered second planning commission meeting, required after the Sunshine Act ruling of 25 August, has no published date. Spartanburg Countys additional public safety committee meeting, the reason the final reading of its countywide moratorium was put back to 21 September, still has no published date. Lincolnton, Bay City, Henry County in Virginia, Hall County in Georgia, Kokomo, Doylestown Township, Cumberland in Rhode Island, Minot, Northfield, Salem in Oregon, Grayslake, Cumberland County in North Carolina and Louisville are unchanged from last run and still without published days.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-02", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "2 September 2026, 1:00pm", "what": "Platte County commissioners take a recommendation to rezone 5,344 acres of ranch, agricultural and mining land to industrial for a proposed data centre", "where": "Platte County, Wyoming, United States", "note": "The county planning and zoning commission voted unanimously to recommend the rezoning, about twenty-two square kilometres, and attached three conditions: the land reverts to its previous zoning if construction does not begin within five years, any industrial subdivision must be presented to the commissioners before recording, and any development requires a special use permit. The chairman said the commission considered only the zoning change and not the project. Whether the public may speak on 2 September is not stated in the reporting. Source cowboystatedaily.com, 27 August 2026.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning land participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-07-08", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-09-08", "when_text": "Open now, closes 8 September 2026, 11:59pm central European time", "what": "European Commission targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU data sovereignty", "where": "European Union, through the Commission online survey", "note": "Opened 8 July 2026 on data-related dependencies affecting European organisations: barriers to accessing data held in third countries, and risks from third-country access to sensitive EU data. Sits inside the European Tech Sovereignty Package covering semiconductors, artificial intelligence, cloud and open source. Described as targeted at actors in the data value chain across different sectors; the page does not state whether an individual writing on their own account may respond. Runs alongside the Cloud and AI Development Act window that closed 27 August and the Irish consultation closing 11 September. Source digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu.", "keys": "europe regulator consultation participation data-sovereignty"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-09", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "9 September 2026", "what": "Eastport city council special meeting on two citizen-initiated ordinances covering an underwater AI data centre proposed for the Bay of Fundy", "where": "Eastport, Washington County, Maine, United States", "note": "DeepGreen Holdings, registered in Delaware a month before applying to federal regulators, proposes tidal-powered underwater artificial intelligence data centres in Western Passage. Residents put up two ordinances, one to ban data centres and one to require a town vote on large commercial projects. The council adopted a 180-day pause in mid-August. The planning board then held a public hearing, recommended a permanent ban unanimously and widened it to all zoning districts, and advised dismissing the voter-approval ordinance after a legal analysis found it conflicts with the city charter. Councillors take those recommendations at a special meeting on 9 September. Paired with the federal FERC comment window closing 19 October. Sources strisker.com, mainepublic.org, themainemonitor.org.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning participation moratorium environment"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-09-15", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-15", "when_text": "15 September and 15 October 2026", "what": "Spokane County holds two public hearings on data centres, one on the pause and one on the proposed zoning code", "where": "County Commissioners Hearing Room, Spokane County, Washington, United States", "note": "15 September at 2pm, county commissioners, on the pause in data centre land use and permit applications; speakers are held to three minutes and may only address the pause. 15 October at 4:30pm, planning commission, on the proposed data centre zoning code. A planning commission work session falls between them on 17 September and is not a hearing. Residents had asked the commission for a moratorium. Sources 929zzu.com, krem.com, rangemedia.co.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation moratorium planning"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "door", "starts": "2026-08-25", "ends": "", "closes": "2026-10-19", "when_text": "Open now, closes 19 October 2026", "what": "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission solicits comments, motions to intervene and competing applications on a preliminary permit for an underwater data centre in the Bay of Fundy", "where": "United States, through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filing system", "note": "The commission accepted the DeepGreen Western Passage SPV LLC preliminary permit application for filing on 19 August 2026, and the Federal Register notice of 25 August solicits comments, motions to intervene, competing applications and notices of intent to file one, all due 19 October 2026. A preliminary permit holds a site for up to forty-eight months for engineering and environmental studies and does not authorise construction. The project is about twenty-seven acres of sea floor in Western Passage, tidal-powered, put at 100 million dollars. Federal half of the Eastport entry. Sources federalregister.gov, bangordailynews.com, themainemonitor.org.", "keys": "north-america regulator data-centres consultation participation environment energy water"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-19", "ends": "2026-08-28", "closes": "2026-08-28", "when_text": "Closed 28 August 2026", "what": "Minnesota docket 26-159 on the Minnesota Power electric service agreement with a Google subsidiary at Hermantown has closed to written comment and the entry moves to what already came, outcome not yet known", "where": "Minnesota, United States, through the commission eDockets system", "note": "The commission has published nothing about how many comments arrived or from whom. The commission next holds a public meeting to deliberate and decide. Docket 26-170 covering the Xcel Energy agreement with a second Google subsidiary at Pine Island remains open and on the page, closing 8 September 2026. The watch has logged nothing on either.", "keys": "north-america regulator data-centres consultation participation energy grid"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-27", "ends": "2026-08-27", "closes": "2026-08-27", "when_text": "Held 27 August 2026, 6:00pm", "what": "Elkhart city council took public comment and voted nine to nothing to adopt a moratorium on data centres and battery energy storage; the entry moves to what already came with an outcome", "where": "Elkhart, Indiana, United States", "note": "The moratorium suspends new applications for data centres and battery energy storage facilities in the City of Elkhart through to 31 December 2027, which is longer than the one year first proposed. Mayor Rod Roberson said it is a pause and not a complete rejection of data centres. The pause applies to the city and not the county. Sources wndu.com and wsbt.com, 28 August 2026. The watch has logged nothing on Elkhart.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres consultation participation moratorium water energy planning"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-08-27", "ends": "2026-08-27", "closes": "", "when_text": "Held 27 August 2026", "what": "Austin city council voted unanimously to initiate amendments to the Land Development Code for data centres and required binding regulations by the end of 2026; the entry moves to what already came with an outcome", "where": "Austin, Texas, United States", "note": "The resolution directs the city manager to begin drafting amendments creating land uses, development standards, approval processes and operating requirements for data centres, with opportunities for public comment during the process. The council amended the staff recommendation to require binding regulations by the end of 2026. Austin current code does not define the term data center. Five councillors had said the day before that they oppose new data centres outright, which the resolution does not settle. Sources kut.org, fox7austin.com, communityimpact.com. The watch noted Austin on 20 August as held rather than logged.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning water energy participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "moved", "starts": "2026-07-02", "ends": "2026-08-27", "closes": "2026-08-27", "when_text": "Closed 27 August 2026", "what": "The European Commission feedback window on the Cloud and AI Development Act has closed and the entry moves to what already came, outcome not yet known", "where": "European Union, through the Commission Have your say portal", "note": "The Commission has published nothing about how many responses arrived or from whom. What follows is legislative rather than announced: the proposal goes to the European Parliament and the Council, and the European Economic and Social Committee has an opinion in preparation. The Irish consultation on the same Act, opened 14 August and closing 11 September, remains open and on the page. Sources digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, eur-lex.europa.eu, eesc.europa.eu.", "keys": "europe regulator data-centres consultation participation energy environment data-sovereignty"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "No days published", "what": "Five processes with a place and no usable date", "where": "Martin County and Chesapeake; Salem Township, Pennsylvania; Spartanburg County, South Carolina; Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States", "note": "Martin County, Florida commissioners voted four to one on 25 August 2026 to put a possible one-year data centre moratorium on the agenda of their next meeting and directed staff to bring back a proposal; no date was set. Chesapeake, Virginia approved a data centre permitting ordinance on 18 August 2026 and directed staff to run public listening sessions, which the city says are being finalised and will be posted to its website and social media when complete. Salem Township court-ordered second planning commission meeting still has no published date, and a second civil motion has been filed by the same eight residents over the notice given for the supervisors work session of 26 August and a proposed resolution restricting public comment to township residents and taxpayers. Spartanburg County additional public safety committee meeting still has no published date. Fayetteville, North Carolina is to reconsider its data centre regulations in late October with no day set. Lincolnton, Bay City, Henry County in Virginia, Hall County in Georgia, Kokomo, Doylestown Township, Cumberland in Rhode Island, Minot, Northfield, Salem in Oregon, Grayslake, Cumberland County in North Carolina and Louisville are unchanged from last run and still without published days.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-29", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found shut, or found and judged out of scope", "where": "United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Uruguay, global", "note": "Nothing new open for comment on artificial intelligence has appeared in the United States Federal Register since 21 August 2026; the only AI-tagged notice published 27 August is a Federal Highway Administration information collection. The European Commission consultation list carries nothing open on AI beyond the data sovereignty window now on the page; the AI Act serious incident guidance consultation closed in November 2025, the high-risk classification and transparency guideline consultations are closed, and the EIOPA consultation on AI governance and risk management closed 12 May 2025 with a feedback statement published 6 August 2025. Uruguay national AI strategy consultation ran 16 September to 21 October 2024 and is shut, a different process from the children and digital environments consultation still open and on the page. The United Kingdom has nothing new open with artificial intelligence in the title; a DSIT consultation on empowering people through data intermediaries, opened 8 June 2026 and extended to 11:59pm on 7 September 2026, makes no reference to AI and is noted rather than listed. At the UN human rights office, a call for input on technologies related to climate change and their impacts on human rights closes 30 September 2026, five pages maximum, in English, French or Spanish; it is about climate technology rather than AI governance and is recorded here rather than listed. The Ireland Oireachtas pre-legislative scrutiny consultation on the Regulation of the Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 closed 13 April 2026. The United Kingdom consultation on a National Policy Statement for Data Centres has still not opened and stays the clearest thing to watch for outside North America.", "keys": "global national-government regulator consultation participation"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-30", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-09-14", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "14 September 2026, 6:00pm, informational meeting 5:30pm", "what": "Kokomo common council takes the second reading of its data centre standards ordinance", "where": "Council Chambers, City Hall, Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana, United States", "note": "The plan commission voted five to one on 17 August 2026 to support an amendment making data centres an allowed use on industrial land and in part of the U.S. 31 overlay district on the east side of the city. The common council introduced the ordinance on 31 August and passed it six votes to two on first reading, Councilmen Jeff Plough and Bob Stephenson against. Second reading Monday 14 September at 6pm in the council chambers at City Hall, with an informational meeting at 5:30pm. The draft requires data centres at least 200 feet from residential districts and 300 feet from any existing home, a five-foot berm planted with evergreens no more than twelve feet apart, power lines kept 100 feet from property lines, and disclosure of phased expansion plans. Residents at the first reading asked for water usage studies, larger setbacks and stricter light and noise limits, none of which are in the draft; the reporting notes Kokomo is not adding the stricter noise or utility regulations Indianapolis has. Whether the second reading takes public comment is not stated, so no door chip. This closes a gap: Kokomo has been carried as a place with no published day since earlier in August. Sources kokomolantern.substack.com, wrtv.com.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres planning participation land", "url": "https://kokomolantern.substack.com/p/data-center-restrictions-advanced"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-30", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "entry", "starts": "2026-11-03", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "3 November 2026", "what": "Pataskala and Sunbury voters decide charter amendments that would prohibit data centres above 25 megawatts peak load", "where": "Pataskala, Licking County, and Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio, United States", "note": "Residents gathered signatures for municipal charter amendments prohibiting construction of any data centre with a peak load above 25 megawatts, a threshold that would rule out the hyperscale facilities being developed across central Ohio. Pataskala city council voted 3 August 2026 to place the amendment on the ballot, expediting its vote to meet the general filing deadline of 5 August for the 3 November election; organisers gathered more than five hundred signatures. The council separately accepted the planning and zoning commission recommendation to refuse the Aligned Data Centers proposal for a 200 megawatt campus of three buildings in the city industrial park. Granville village council heard the first reading of an ordinance on 5 August 2026 to put the same question to its voters, and Heath, Johnstown and Newark could follow if organisers gather enough valid signatures. A statewide Ohio constitutional amendment to prohibit data centre construction did not gather enough signatures for the 2026 ballot. First entry on this page that is decided by a vote of residents rather than by a council or commission. Sources thereportingproject.org, abc6onyourside.com, irontontribune.com.", "keys": "north-america local-government data-centres participation planning land energy", "url": "https://www.thereportingproject.org/granville-voters-likely-to-join-pataskala-residents-in-vote-that-could-ban-large-data-centers/"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-30", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Found this run with a place but no usable date, so held here rather than written onto the page", "where": "Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Brazil, Australia", "note": "Lake County, Illinois: the zoning board of appeals voted unanimously on 18 August 2026 to recommend an eight-month moratorium on data centres in unincorporated Lake County, running to May 2027, following a county board resolution of 9 June 2026 directing the hearing. The text amendment goes next to the county board planning, building and environment committee; no date published. Manatee County, Florida: commissioners voted in late July 2026 to direct staff to prepare a moratorium of up to one year on large-load customers including AI facilities and bitcoin mining, with public hearings promised before the planning commission and the board of county commissioners; the county has published no dates, and dates of 22 September and 6 October appearing in secondary reporting could not be confirmed against the county or a primary source, so they are not written onto the page. Martin County, Florida: commissioners voted four to one on 25 August 2026 to bring a possible one-year pause back at their next meeting; still no date set. Lincolnton, North Carolina: the resumed public hearing is still published as September with no day. Tenth Ministerial Conference on the Information Society and Digital Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean: to be held in Brazil in 2026, agreed at the ninth conference in Santiago in November 2024; no dates published. Australia, Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence: appointed 20 August 2026 and due to report by 30 November 2026, still no public submission window published.", "keys": "north-america latin-america pacific local-government parliament regional-bloc data-centres planning consultation participation", "url": "https://www.lakecountyil.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/4784"}
{"first_seen": "2026-08-30", "stamp": "07:34 Brisbane (UTC+10)", "type": "finding", "starts": "", "ends": "", "closes": "", "when_text": "", "what": "Doors checked this run and found shut, or found and judged a different subject", "where": "India, Brazil, Canada, Australia, European Union, United States, global", "note": "India: the MeitY consultation on amendments to the IT Rules covering labelling of AI-generated content opened 30 March 2026 and closed 7 May 2026 after an extension. Brazil: the Ministry of Justice and Public Security consultation on the Guide to the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence closed 4 May 2026 after extension from 19 April; the National Education Council consultation on guidelines for the use of AI in basic and higher education, run through Brasil Participativo, closed 17 June 2026. Canada: the ISED engagements on the next national AI strategy ran 1 to 31 October 2025 with the summary published 2 February 2026, and the civil society People's Consultation on AI closed 23 March 2026 after extension; the AI transparency consultation closing 23 September 2026 is already on the page. Australia: Griffith City Council in New South Wales exhibited a draft AI policy with submissions closing 4pm 12 November 2025, shut. European Union: the consultation on machine-readable opt-out protocols for text and data mining under the AI Act and the GPAI Code of Practice opened 1 December 2025 and closed in January 2026; the targeted consultation on draft guidelines for classifying high-risk AI systems closed 23 July 2026; the AI transparency guidelines consultation closed 3 June 2026. United States: the Alabama Public Service Commission review of Alabama Power electric service contracts with data centres of at least 150 megawatts took initial comments to 6 August 2026 and reply comments to 21 August 2026, both past. World Bank: the regional consultations on World Development Report 2026 on artificial intelligence are finished; the report was published in August 2026. UN human rights office: the calls-for-input listing carries the children and digital environment call closing 30 October 2026, already on the page, and a call on technologies related to climate change closing 30 September 2026, which is climate technology rather than this subject and is recorded here in case it is the right door for somebody else.", "keys": "asia latin-america north-america europe pacific global national-government regulator consultation participation", "url": "https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input-listing"}